"Young Trade is dead,
And swart Work sullen sits in the
hillside
fern
And folds his arms that find no bread to earn,
And bows his head.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Say 'twas Ulysses: 'twas his deed declare,
Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair;
Ulysses, far in
fighting
fields renown'd,
Before whose arm Troy tumbled to the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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As proude Bayard ginneth for to skippe
Out of the wey, so priketh him his corn,
Til he a lash have of the longe whippe, 220
Than
thenketh
he, `Though I praunce al biforn
First in the trays, ful fat and newe shorn,
Yet am I but an hors, and horses lawe
I moot endure, and with my feres drawe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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" Thus down our road we took
Through those
dilapidated
crags, that oft
Mov'd underneath my feet, to weight like theirs
Unus'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Look at the owl, scarce seen, scarce heard,
O irritant, iterant,
maddening
bird!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Da l'ora ch'io avea
guardato
prima
i' vidi mosso me per tutto l'arco
che fa dal mezzo al fine il primo clima;
si ch'io vedea di la da Gade il varco
folle d'Ulisse, e di qua presso il lito
nel qual si fece Europa dolce carco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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La terre avait des
versants
fertiles
en princes et en artistes, et la descendance et la
race nous poussaient aux crimes et aux deuils: ce monde votre fortune et
votre peril.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(3) The belief in the existence
of the volume of 1641 arose from the dates of
_Mortimer_
and the
_Discoveries_, 'all the copies of which are dated 1641', and of
the variant edition of _The Devil is an Ass_, which will next be
described.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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Ma quell' anime, ch'eran lasse e nude,
cangiar colore e
dibattero
i denti,
ratto che 'nteser le parole crude.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"I saw him in gaunt gardens lone,
Where
laughter
used to be;
That he as phantom wanders there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Why loosened I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could
outshape
in
A globe of such grain?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If you are
redistributing
or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[557] Ibycus, a lyric poet of the sixth century,
originally
from Rhegium
in Magna Graecia.
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Aristophanes |
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And Susan she begins to fear
Of sad
mischances
not a few,
That Johnny may perhaps be drown'd,
Or lost perhaps, and never found;
Which they must both for ever rue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous
remuent!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You who consoled me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine
entwines
the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[The
Tragedie
of Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1603]
Actus Primus.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_
The foregoing was to have been an elaborate dissertation on the
various species of men; but as I cannot please myself in the
arrangement of my ideas, I must wait till farther
experience
and nicer
observation throw more light on the subject.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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1074 in spenne in space an the
interval
eeanwhile.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But when they came where that dead Dragon lay,
Stretcht on the ground in
monstrous
large extent,
The sight with idle feare did them dismay, 80
Ne durst approch him nigh, to touch, or once assay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Forth from the forest's distant depth, from bald and barren peaks,
They
congregate
in hungry flocks and rend their gory prey.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But
Fitzdottrel
has just said 'Laught at, sweet bird?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When the tradition
is Satyric, as here, the same process
produces
almost an opposite effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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MARMADUKE (a letter in his hand)
It is no common thing when one like you
Performs
these delicate services, and therefore
I feel myself much bounden to you, Oswald;
'Tis a strange letter this!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The subject of free-verse is too
complicated
to be discussed here.
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Imagists |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
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Imagists |
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The spear receiving from the hand, he placed
Against a column, fair with sculpture graced;
Where seemly ranged in
peaceful
order stood
Ulysses' arms now long disused to blood.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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) I
Pierced him with
stiffest
staff and did him die.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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II
Thus do I this heyday, holding
Shadows but as lights unfolding,
As no specious show this moment
With its irised embowment;
But as nothing other than
Part of a
benignant
plan;
Proof that earth was made for man.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Woe to that flaunting army's pride, so vaunting
yesterday!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On
mountain
soil I first drew life:
The mists of the Taglay have shed
Nightly their dews upon my head,
And, I believe, the winged strife
And tumult of the headlong air
Have nestled in my very hair.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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By four unpitying walls environed there
The homesick students pace the
pavements
bare.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It is an old notion that, if these wild trees do not bear a valuable
fruit of their own, they are the best stocks by which to
transmit
to
posterity the most highly prized qualities of others.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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De quel droit payes-tu des
experiences
comme moi?
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T.S. Eliot |
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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?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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But hawks will rob the tender joys
That bless the little lintwhite's nest;
And frost will blight the fairest flowers,
And love will break the
soundest
rest.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
]
[Sidenote I: Thou failedst at the third time, and
therefore
take thee that
tap.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'neath the
pressure
yield
Its groaning woods; the torrents' flow
With clear sharp ice is all congeal'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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E'en now dull earth and wandering floods,
And Atlas'
limitary
range,
And Styx, and Taenarus' dark abodes
Are reeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Close by the
straight
Larissa road.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A public
official
in a yellow coat and a boy in a white shirt.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I was
thinking
whether I should have to go on crutches for the
rest of my life if you trod on my toes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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One morn we stroll'd on our dry walk,
Our quiet house all full in view,
And held such
intermitted
talk
As we are wont to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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20
LXVII
Indoors the fire is kindled;
Beechwood is piled on the hearthstone;
Cold are the
chattering
oak-leaves;
And the ponds frost-bitten.
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Sappho |
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Faces so pale with
wondrous
eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
Draw close, but speak not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Where
breathes
the foe but falls before us?
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Lo suo tacere e 'l trasmutar sembiante
puoser silenzio al mio cupido ingegno,
che gia nuove questioni avea davante;
e si come saetta che nel segno
percuote pria che sia la corda queta,
cosi
corremmo
nel secondo regno.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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X
Thoughts
When I am all alone
Envy me most,
Then my thoughts flutter round me
In a
glimmering
host;
Some dressed in silver,
Some dressed in white,
Each like a taper
Blossoming light;
Most of them merry,
Some of them grave,
Each of them lithe
As willows that wave;
Some bearing violets,
Some bearing bay,
One with a burning rose
Hidden away--
When I am all alone
Envy me then,
For I have better friends
Than women and men.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The Cat in a fright
scrambled
out of the doorway;
The Mice tumbled out of a bundle of hay;
The brown and white Rats, and the black ones from Norway,
Screamed out, "They are taking the horses away!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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This tablet has been
erroneously
assigned to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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When the bee sips in the bean, and grey willow
branches
lean,
And the moonbeam looks between,
Bonny lassie O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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laetaturque tamen; Mauortia signa rubescunt
floribus et subitis animantur
frondibus
hastae.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
XV
Once
engrossing
Bridge of Lodi,
Is thy claim to glory gone?
| 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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'Spleenwort':
a sort of fern which was once
supposed
to be a remedy against the spleen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Who's there
i'th' name of
Belzebub?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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He bends to the habit
of dragging his feet
up under him,
like a measuring-worm:
some of his forefathers,
stooped over books,
ruled short
straight
lines
under two rows of figures
to keep their thin savings
from sifting to the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But
internal
difference
Where the meanings are.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But in the field were Lancelot's kith and kin,
Ranged with the Table Round that held the lists,
Strong men, and
wrathful
that a stranger knight
Should do and almost overdo the deeds
Of Lancelot; and one said to the other, 'Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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you scorn our race;
You
captives
of your air-tight halls,
Wear out indoors your sickly days,
But leave us the horizon walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Sudden, a fear came o'er his
troubled
soul,
What more was written on the Future's scroll?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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We might just see how
horrible
they are.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXVIII
But to
Oneguine!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A
miscellaneous
rabble, who extol 50
Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise,
They praise and they admire they know not what;
And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
To live upon thir tongues and be thir talk,
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?
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Milton |
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(Only certain very bold instructions of mine,
encroachments
etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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G, RVenABD: _AD VARIVM_ C
3
_idemque
al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE
POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Anything
you please, so long as she'll know me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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