And so, when smooth
The bodies of the oozy flavour, then
Delightfully they touch, delightfully
They treat all spots, around the wet and trickling
Enclosures
of the tongue.
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Lucretius |
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The Grecians seek their ships, and clear the strand,
All, but the martial Myrmidonian band:
These yet assembled great Achilles holds,
And the stern purpose of his mind unfolds:
"Not yet, my brave companions of the war,
Release your smoking
coursers
from the car;
But, with his chariot each in order led,
Perform due honours to Patroclus dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
There is, perhaps, no woman's
character
in the range of Greek tragedy so
profoundly studied.
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Euripides - Electra |
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(Too bad of
customers
to come so late,
At closing time!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ASTRAEA
Each the herald is who wrote
His rank, and
quartered
his own coat.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thou wert to tell me
wherefore
for five days
We may pretend to be God's people still;
Why thou didst not make us over to death
Soon as the folk began to wail despair.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With his huge sceptre graced, and red attire,
Came halting forth the
sovereign
of the fire:
The monarch's steps two female forms uphold,
That moved and breathed in animated gold;
To whom was voice, and sense, and science given
Of works divine (such wonders are in heaven!
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Iliad - Pope |
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" So these critics are
unfinished
things for which no proper
name can be found.
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Alexander Pope |
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Then - you would only
have been me
- since I am
here - lonely, sad -
- no, I remember
a
childhood
-
- yours
twin voices
but without you
I'd not have - known
18.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Be Jove of all in heav'n my witness first,
Then this thy hospitable board, and, last,
The household Gods of the illustrious Chief
Ulysses, at whose hearth I have arrived,[74]
That, even now, within his native isle
Ulysses somewhere sits, or creeps obscure,
Witness of these enormities, and seeds 190
Sowing of dire destruction for his foes;
So sure an augury, while on the deck
Reclining
of the gallant bark, I saw,
And with loud voice proclaim'd it to thy son.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But *who
considers
right, will find indeed,
'Tis Holy Island parts us, not the Tweed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
Then follow'd: "No
unpleasant
thirst, tho' long,
Which took me reading in the sacred book,
Whose leaves or white or dusky never change,
Thou hast allay'd, my son, within this light,
From whence my voice thou hear'st; more thanks to her.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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15
Here did he sit
confined
for hours;
But he could see the woods and plains,
Could hear the wind and mark the showers
Come streaming down the streaming panes.
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William Wordsworth |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her
rippling
curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
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Ronsard |
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Say, do churls
Thou shalt make thy house
Though her eyes seek other forms
Though loath to grieve
Though love repine and reason chafe
Thousand minstrels woke within me
Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down
Thy summer voice, Musketaquit
Thy trivial harp will never please
To and fro the Genius flies
To clothe the fiery thought
To transmute crime to wisdom, so to stem
Trees in groves
True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet
Try the might the Muse affords
Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene
Two well-assorted
travellers
use
Unbar the door, since thou the Opener art
Venus, when her son was lost
Was never form and never face
We are what we are made; each following day
We crossed Champlain to Keeseville with our friends
We love the venerable house
Well and wisely said the Greek
What all the books of ages paint, I have
What care I, so they stand the same
What central flowing forces, say
When all their blooms the meadows flaunt
When I was born
When success exalts thy lot
When the pine tosses its cones
When wrath and terror changed Jove's regal port
Who gave thee, O Beauty
Who knows this or that?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Your beauty was the cause of that effect-
Your beauty that did haunt me in my sleep
To
undertake
the death of all the world
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
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Shakespeare |
|
LVIII
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Punctuated as the sentence is in modern editions 'so' must mean 'in
like manner', referring back to the
statement
about the river.
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John Donne |
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It is a
significant
fact that Rilke dedicated this book to Gerhart
Hauptmann, "in love and gratitude for his Michael Kramer.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A narrow
compass!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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No, no; our maiden
pleasures
be
Wrapp'd in the winding-sheet with thee:
'Tis we are dead, though not i' th' grave:
Or, if we have
One seed of life left, 'tis to keep
A Lent for thee, to fast and weep.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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But now aread, old father, why of late
Didst thou behight me borne of English blood,
Whom all a Faeries sonne doen
nominate?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Your wordes ful of
plesaunce
and humblesse?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What's on this tomb
I cannot read; the
character
I'll take with wax.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Darius, Assar-addon, Hamilcar;
Who have led men in legions out to war,
Or have o'er Time's shade cast rays from their seat,
Or throngs in worship made their name repeat,
These were, but all the cup of life have drank;
Rising 'midst clamor, they in
stillness
sank.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Where he
is
passionate
and romantic, she is simple and homely.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Full well I know the hour when hope
Sinks dead, and 'round us everywhere
Hangs stifling darkness, and we grope
With hands
uplifted
in despair.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Now wearing them
Myself wars on myself, for I myself--
That do my husband's will, yet fear to do it--
Grow
dragonish
to myself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The Book of Wisdom may be compard with the A B C, and How the Good Wife and Good Man taught their
Daughter
and Son, in my Babees Book, Q.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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His might continues in thee not for naught,
Nor shall his
wondrous
gifts be frustrate thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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ATHENA
Behold, with gracious heart well pleased
I for my
citizens
do grant
Fulfilment of this covenant:
And here, their wrath at length appeased,
These mighty deities shall stay,
For theirs it is by right to sway
The lot that rules our mortal day,
And he who hath not inly felt
Their stern decree, ere long on him,
Not knowing why and whence, the grim
Life-crushing blow is dealt.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"--Forgive me, Jupiter, is not
Rome's
Capitoline
Hill second Olympus to you?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit
ingenium
humanum, nunquam
attigit.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Ah,
thou
honeysuckle
villain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Connected with the castle of the
Viscount
of Limoges, his skill earned him the nickname of Master of the Troubadours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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[161]
Ascension
Day.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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O lonely Himalayan height,
Grey pillar of the Indian sky,
Where saw'st thou last in
clanging
flight
Our winged dogs of Victory?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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It is no
disgrace
to have an old father and a ragged
shirt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| 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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(Now, the Clangle-Wangle is a most dangerous and
delusive
beast, and by no
means commonly to be met with.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
So he lies
Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence,
hopelessly
deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It calms the
agitated
heart;
Temptations, evil thoughts, and all
The passions that disturb the soul,
Are quelled by its divine control,
As the evil spirit fled from Saul,
And his distemper was allayed,
When David took his harp and played.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
MARMADUKE I had many hopes
That were most dear to me, and some will bear
To be
transferred
to thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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I fear for my songs; however, a few may please, yet originality is a
coy feature in composition, and in a
multiplicity
of efforts in the
same style, disappears altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And was he
confident
until
Ill fluttered out in everlasting well?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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at is cleped
inperfit
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
O Magi of the east and of the west,
Your incense, gold and myrrh are
excellent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
'Poor fellow,'
murmured
Howard, 'he is broken-hearted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The Ruins of Three of those Towers are yet shown by the
Peasantry; as also the Swamp in which Bahram sunk, like the Master of
Ravenswood, while
pursuing
his Gur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Three thousand
gentlemen
in holes in the wall,2 ladder to the clouds, seventy cities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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But god ne
preiseth
him no-thing,
That seith he hath the world forsake,
And hath to worldly glorie him take, 7280
And wol of siche delyces use;
Who may that Begger wel excuse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
We are young and eager and yet we are
mateless
and unvisited, and
though we lie in unbroken half embrace, we are uncomforted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
But surely France must be a
pleasant
place
That greets the stranger with so fair a face;
The English maiden blushes down the dance,
But few can equal the fair maid of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
There was first the
danger of their being left fatherless, a dire
calamity
in the heroic age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of the year 1917.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I, in wonder, asked the people about me
Who he was and what had
happened
to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the
lightning
and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
at
Mytilene, in the island of Lesbos, was driven out of his country by a
tyrant and sang of his loves, his
services
as a warrior, his travels and
the miseries of his exile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Un matin nous partons, le cerveau plein de flamme,
Le coeur gros de rancune et de desirs amers,
Et nous allons, suivant le rythme de la lame,
Bercant notre infini sur le fini des mers:
Les uns, joyeux de fuir une patrie infame;
D'autres, l'horreur de leurs berceaux, et quelques-uns,
Astrologues noyes dans les yeux d'une femme,
La Circe tyrannique aux
dangereux
parfums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Information
about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O rough-hewn
god of the orchard,
I bring you an offering--
do you, alone unbeautiful,
son of the god,
spare us from loveliness:
these fallen hazel-nuts,
stripped
late of their green sheaths,
grapes, red-purple,
their berries
dripping with wine,
pomegranates already broken,
and shrunken figs
and quinces untouched,
I bring you as offering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
| 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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The azure vault in silver shimmers soft,
A dewy breeze with
fragrance
soars aloft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Here's what the
hypocrite
said: "Trust me just once more, this time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
There is not a bird but delights in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my
thatched
cottage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Ah, how can I ever hope to requite
This honor from one so
erudite?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
I found, ten years ago, that there were a
number of writers doing work which appeared to me
extremely
good, but
which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and meagrely gifted, who presented a conspectus of it in
a challenging and manageable form might be doing a good turn both to the
poets and to the reading public.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Time, leaning on his scythe, forgets
To turn the hour-glass in his hand,
And all life's petty cares and frets,
Its teasing hopes and weak regrets,
Are still as that
oblivious
sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were
spousyde
in goddys laue;
Atte here spousyng I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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64
All that comyn thyder ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And then I thought of you,
Andromache!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Act IV Scene V (The King, Diegue, Arias, Alonso, Sanche, Chimene, Elvire)
King
Be content
Chimene, victory answers your intent:
Though
Rodrigue
overcame our enemies
He died before our eyes from wounds received.
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Where is our English
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But what
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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TO ZANTE
FAIR isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take
How many
memories
of what radiant hours
At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
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Then of Aelis I'll demand
Her adroit and
charming
tongue
Which must surely aid my suit,
That it be not dull or mute.
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Troubador Verse |
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KRAP _is
speaking
to the_ CONSUL.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Deiphobumque Helenumque et Polydamanta et in armis
qualemcumque
Parin uix sua nosset humus.
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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ARCHITECTURAL MASKS
I
THERE is a house with ivied walls,
And
mullioned
windows worn and old,
And the long dwellers in those halls
Have souls that know but sordid calls,
And daily dote on gold.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the swinging prow;
And
question
of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Give him heedful note;
For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
And after we will both our
judgments
join
In censure of his seeming.
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To
those who knew her in England, all the life of the tiny figure
seemed to
concentrate
itself in the eyes; they turned towards
beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun, opening wider and
wider until one saw nothing but the eyes.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Without reply vouchsafed, Antinous ceased:
Meanwhile the pomp of festival increased:
By heralds rank'd; in marshall'd order move
The city tribes, to pleased Apollo's grove:
Beneath the verdure of which awful shade,
The lunar
hecatomb
they grateful laid;
Partook the sacred feast, and ritual honours paid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
nightingale
desires his little lass,
And that brings out of his heart a radiant song;
A man desires a woman, and for song
Out of his heart comes beauty, that like flame
Reaches towards her, and covers her limbs with light.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'81 These':
the gnomes who urge the vain
beauties
to disdain all offers of love and
play the part of prudes.
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Alexander Pope |
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"My friends with rude
ungentle
words
They scoff and bid me fly to thee!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Tytler of Woodhouselee, the worthy and able defender of
the beauteous Queen of Scots, told me that the songs marked C, in the
_Tea-table_, were the
composition
of a Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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No living thing was there beside one woman,
Whom I found wandering in the streets, and she
Was withered from a likeness of aught human _2760
Into a fiend, by some strange misery:
Soon as she heard my steps she leaped on me,
And glued her burning lips to mine, and laughed
With a loud, long, and frantic laugh of glee,
And cried, 'Now, Mortal, thou hast deeply quaffed _2765
The Plague's blue kisses--soon
millions
shall pledge the draught!
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Shelley |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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at
graciously
loked,
Wyth leue la3t of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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