It
begins by urging men to abandon vain
questionings
of God's providence
and to take up the consideration of their own natures, for "the proper
study of mankind is man.
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Alexander Pope |
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{a}t pheb{us}
the sonne w{i}t{h} his goldene chariet /
bryngeth
forth the
rosene day / ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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It was nobody's
business
to warn Pluffles that he was unwise.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting
with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.
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Sara Teasdale |
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That excellent lady was
sorely tried with domestic afflictions for a time, and to these he
appears to allude; but he
deadened
the effect of his sympathy, when he
printed the stanzas in the Museum, changing the fourth line to,
"Dearest Nancy, thou canst tell!
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Robert Forst |
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I have no
precious
time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Money should be paid to the:
"Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Rouse thy winds to fury, and
overwhelm
their sinking vessels, or
drive them asunder and strew ocean with their bodies.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
He is old, and kind, and deaf, and blind,
And very, very pleased with his
charming
moat
And the swans which float.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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closing on the gates,
He peals his
vaunting
and appalling cry!
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Aeschylus |
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But who what drug the burning entrail sears,
Or who for her would knife or noose prepare,
No man appears to me, though such to sight
He seem, but rather some
infernal
sprite.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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See what effect our low
submissions
gain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the country we
Can count the time without much fuss--
The stomach doth
admonish
us.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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]
[This etext has been
transcribed
from the original edition, which was
published in New York in 1911.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LXVII
Olympia's beauties are of those most rare,
Nor is the forehead's
beauteous
curve alone
Excellent, and her eyes and cheeks and hair,
Mouth, nose, and throat, and shoulders; but, so down
Descending from the lady's bosom fair,
Parts which are wont to be concealed by gown,
Are such, as haply should be placed before
Whate'er this ample world contains in store.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
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Ronsard |
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VII
My eyes are weary
Following
you everywhere.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so
wondrous
sweet and fair!
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Golden Treasury |
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But you are
nothing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A fiend is here behind, who with his sword
Hacks us thus cruelly,
slivering
again
Each of this ream, when we have compast round
The dismal way, for first our gashes close
Ere we repass before him.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With
poisoned
meat and poisoned drink.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I am no dab
at fine-drawn letter-writing; and, except when prompted by friendship
or gratitude, or, which happens
extremely
rarely, inspired by the muse
(I know not her name) that presides over epistolary writing, I sit
down, when necessitated to write, as I would sit down, to beat hemp.
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Robert Forst |
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In 1607, Herrick was fifteen, and, even if we conjecture that he may
have been allowed to remain at school some little time after his
apprenticeship
nominally
began, he must have served his uncle for five
or six years.
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Robert Herrick |
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and
rectified?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But, at last, light showed us our advantage;
The Moors faced defeat, and so lost courage:
And seeing our
reinforcements
on the way,
Fear of death destroyed their hopes with day.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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II
East and west and south and north
The
messengers
ride fast,
And tower and town and cottage
Have heard the trumpet's blast.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I laid her down wi' meikle care,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea.
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Golden Treasury |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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On the contrary they feel themselves
irresistibly
drawn
towards all that is feeble, ruined, sorrowing, and bereft.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Without shame the man I like knows and avows the
deliciousness
of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Flushed was his face and
distorted
with passion; and wildly he shouted,--
"Down with the tyrants of England!
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Longfellow |
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,
_severing
of life, death, end_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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The
roundheads
insult, and the courtiers deride
'em,
And none get preferments, but who will ^betray
Their country to ruin ; 'tis that opes the way
Of the bold talking members.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And you are mine,
My
sweetheart!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Come, then, swear ye all
A solemn oath, that should we find an herd
Or num'rous flock, none here shall either sheep 350
Or bullock slay, by
appetite
profane
Seduced, but shall the viands eat content
Which from immortal Circe we received.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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where were thy wings
When far away upon a
barbarous
strand,
In fight unequal, by an obscure hand,
Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Mine eye
Has scared the gull that sailed
To blacker depths with
shrillest
scream,
Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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o toi qui fis ces hommes
saintement!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The seamen's
clamours
to three ends they use.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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But various Iris, Jove's
commands
to bear,
Speeds on the wings of winds through liquid air;
In Priam's porch the Trojan chiefs she found,
The old consulting, and the youths around.
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Iliad - Pope |
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CALPVRNIVS
SICVLVS
circa 55 A.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Janoo from the bed was
breathing seventy to the minute; Azizun held her hands before her eyes;
and old Suddhoo,
fingering
at the dirt that had got into his white
beard, was crying to himself.
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Kipling - Poems |
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for I would be the most just person of the earth,
And who most
cautious?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Miltiades
obtained a great victory over Darius
at Marathon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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--You have talk'd quite enough,
You
afflicting
old man at a Station!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Again, in a house once a convent, Victor and his brother Eugene were taught
by priests until, by the accident of their roof sheltering a comrade of
their father's, a change of tutor was
afforded
them.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A trifle, a thing of mere weight, I have brought you
From the
Assyrian
camp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She came
close to the bed, and the
terrified
man recognized the Countess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXVII
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
On ancient pride, once threatening the skies,
These old palaces, where the brave hills rise,
Walls, archways, baths, the temples that appear:
Judge, as you view these ruins, shattered, sere,
All that
injurious
Time's devoured: the wise
Architect and mason, their plans devise
Still from these fragments, these patterns clear:
Then note how Rome, still, from day to day,
Rummaging through her ancient decay,
Renews herself with hosts of sacred things:
You'd think the Roman spirit yet alive,
With destined hands continuing to strive,
That to these dusty ruins, new life brings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Translators have naturally made their selections
as varied as possible, so that many of those who know the poet only in
translation might feel
inclined
to defend him on this score.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like
Christmas
snows where dark ways wind,
Like sea-pearls about turquoise twined,
Like moonlight silver when combined
With a loved book's rare gold.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The
unfortunate
host, when he hears someone coming
Scowls and frowns, but can think of no escape.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
| 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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For which it pleased him in his songs to show
The
occasion
of his woe, as best he might;
And made a fitting song, of words [4] but few, 115
Somewhat his woeful heart to make more light;
And when he was removed from all men's sight,
With a soft night voice, [5] he of his Lady dear,
That absent was, 'gan sing as ye may hear.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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will thank
her for a reading of it
previous
to her sending it to the library, as
it is a book Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
He represents him as one whose trust was in the five
wounds, and in whom the five virtues which
distinguished
the true knight
were more firmly established than in any other on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The sky spread over with one continuous
cloud,
whitened
by the light of the moon, which, though her dim shape
was seen, did not throw forth so strong a light as to chequer the
earth with shadows.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Credit is the capital of a younger son, and he can live
charmingly
on
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
sweetest
hours that e'er I spend
Are spent amang the lasses, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Iam ipse Petrarca non solum Catullum in
carminibus et
nominauit
et paene ad uerbum imitatus est, uelut lxxvi.
| Guess: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Heap high the logs, and melt the cold,
Good Thaliarch; draw the wine we ask,
That
mellower
vintage, four-year-old,
From out the cellar'd Sabine cask.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Turns and Movies Houghton Mifflin Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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For which me
thinketh
every maner wight 1555
That haunteth armes oughte to biwayle
The deeth of him that was so noble a knight;
For as he drough a king by thaventayle,
Unwar of this, Achilles through the mayle
And through the body gan him for to ryve; 1560
And thus this worthy knight was brought of lyve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_viii_
Concurrunt ueluti uenti cum spiritus Austri
imbricitor
Aquiloque suo cum flamine contra
indu mari magno fluctus extollere certant.
| 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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Cucumber vines grow entwining about this
primeval
lingam,
Cracking it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The crown is but the shadow of the King,
And this a shadow's shadow, let him have it,
So this will help him of his
violences!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1
Trillion
eBooks!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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That of the Holy Spirit,
Which, as your Calvin says,
surpasseth
reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Maybe we should give her
something
along with that, to bring her on her
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
How may
A
stranger
to those most imperial looks
Know them from eyes of other mortals?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Dice che l'alma a la sua stella riede,
credendo quella quindi esser decisa
quando natura per forma la diede;
e forse sua
sentenza
e d'altra guisa
che la voce non suona, ed esser puote
con intenzion da non esser derisa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Good harbourage withal of bed and board,
She in her hostel found; but small delight
This and all
comforts
else to her afford.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And for that riches where is my
deserving?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And mine is all like one rapt faculty,
As it were
listening
to the love in thee,
My whole mortality trembling to take
Thy body like heard singing of thy spirit.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Sometimes our fate grows too homely and
familiarly
serious ever to be
cruel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Bishop Corbet's _The Faeryes
Farewell_:--
"And though they sweep their hearths no less
Than maids were wont to do,
Yet who of late for cleanliness
Finds
sixpence
in her shoe?
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Robert Herrick |
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reciprocal, if Land be there,
Feilds and Inhabitants: Her spots thou seest
As Clouds, and Clouds may rain, and Rain produce
Fruits in her soft'nd Soile, for some to eate
Allotted there; and other Suns perhaps
With thir
attendant
Moons thou wilt descrie
Communicating Male and Femal Light, 150
Which two great Sexes animate the World,
Stor'd in each Orb perhaps with some that live.
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Milton |
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THe belle was pleased the 'prentice to prefer:
A handsome lad with truth we may aver,
Quite young, well made, with fascinating eye:
Such charms are ne'er despised we may rely,
But
treasures
thought, no FAIR will e'er neglect;
Whate'er her senses say, she'll these respect.
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La Fontaine |
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so
_to good----gouerne_--to
gou{er}ne
to goode folk
4028 _o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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pentangel
apende3 to ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at is 3744
to seyn by
batailes
or [by] contek.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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