He too bewailed his faults with penance sore,
Ay, and his
wretched
luck bemoaned a great deal more.
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which
thunders
down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As careless as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
The New Pleasure
Last night I
invented
a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Ah, those learned
fellows!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I saw him, I blushed: I paled at the sight:
Pain swelled in my
troubled
heart outright:
My eyes saw nothing: I couldn't speak for pain: 275
I felt my whole body frozen, and in flame.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There was a little figure plump
For every little knoll,
Busy needles, and spools of thread,
And
trudging
feet from school.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The construction is very
condensed
here; "effluvia" may
be regarded like "touch" as a subject of "were given" (l.
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Alexander Pope |
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Their sharp, full cheer, from rank on rank,
Rose joyously, with a willing breath--
Rose like a
greeting
hail to death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And since your actions are so nobly meant
Humble, in trembling, my love I phrase,
For there is no lover as
faithful
always
As I to you, Lady, through this world's extent.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ein Lied vom neusten
Schnitt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XX
"Franks, chevaliers," says the
Emperour
then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To Marsilie shall carry back my answer.
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Chanson de Roland |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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At the outset of my work
the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford, lent me the copy of
the edition of 1633 (originally the possession of Sir John Vaughan
(1603-1674) Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) on which the present
edition is based, and also their copies of the
editions
of 1639, 1650,
and 1654.
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John Donne |
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War is a
terrible
trade; but in the cause that is righteous,
Sweet is the smell of powder; and thus I answer the challenge!
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Longfellow |
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Valerio was the name that
stranger
bore;
A name I shall remember evermore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They advance, they float in, the
Olympians
all!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Perhaps in this
neglected
spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre:
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll;
Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
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Golden Treasury |
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^ For such indeed are all our arts,
^ Still handling Nature's finest parts :
* Flowers dress the altars ; for the clothes
* The sea-bom amber we compose ; im
^ Balms for the griev'd w« draw ; and pastes
^ We mould as baits for
curioils
tastes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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poor Ned they hanged--
Hemp
neckcloth
he disdained--
And prettily we all were banged--
And two more blades remained
To serve the Duke, and row in chains--
Thank saints!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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what man
Will front that
vaunting
figure and not fear?
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Aeschylus |
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4 These are the stone
funerary
horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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race d'Abel, ta charogne
Engraissera
le sol fumant!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Clashing
his cymbals, forth he went,
With a bold and gallant bearing;
Sure for a captain he was meant,
To judge his pride with courage blent,
And the cloth of gold he's wearing.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But he, the mangled victim, now a ghost,
Sits pale and trembling on the Stygian coast,
A stranger shivering at the novel scene,
At Charon's threatening voice and
scowling
mien,
Nor hopes a passage thus abruptly hurled,
Without his farthing to the nether world.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through
attenuated
tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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As
for ourselves, let us explain to the
spectators
what we have in our
minds, the purpose of our play.
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Aristophanes |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No
troubled
thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn, nor screaming fife,
At dawn shall call to arms.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Lucius Sextius was the first
Plebeian Consul, Caius
Licinius
the third.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Gefuhl ist alles;
Name ist Schall und Rauch,
Umnebelnd
Himmelsglut.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--"Why, grandma, how you're
winking!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_ when my spirit slips
Down the great
darkness
from the mountain sky;
And those who shall behold me where I lie
Shall murmur: 'Look, you!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His successors have
excelled
him in making
their music more fluid, more lyrical, more vapourous--many young French
poets pass through their Baudelarian green-sickness--but he alone knows
the secrets of moulding those metallic, free sonnets, which have the
resistance of bronze; and of the despairing music that flames from the
mouths of lost souls trembling on the wharves of hell.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But well for him
that after death-day may draw to his Lord,
and
friendship
find in the Father's arms!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Beuve
declared
every
professed critic should frame and hang up in his study.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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--
Fallacious
sign of hope!
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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* * * * *
PETER QUENNELL
PROCNE (A FRAGMENT)
So she became a bird, and bird-like danced
On a long sloe-bough,
treading
the silver blossom
With a bird's lovely feet;
And shaken blossoms fell into the hands
Of Sunlight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ATHANASIUS
MIKAILOVICH PUSHKIN, friend of Prince Shuisky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take:
The
laughing
flowers that round them blow
Drink life and fragrance as they flow.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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TONE PICTURE
(Malipiero: _Impressioni Dal Vero_)
Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun
Pours coarse
laughter
on the crowds,
Trumpets throw their loud nooses
From corner to corner.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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ty {and}
more egre
medicine
by an esier touchyng.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
A domestic cat, soberly
marching
beside him.
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As the
patriots
themselves are searching for a
place, they have no gratuity to spare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Hedges set round clients' farms
Your avarice tramples; see, the
outcasts
fly,
Wife and husband, in their arms
Their fathers' gods, their squalid family.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Many small
donations
($1 to
$5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with
the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"
The Bodleian
Quatrain
pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And if the
sufferer
loves the malady,
There's scarcely call for any remedy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If want provok'd, or madness made them print,
I wag'd no war with
_Bedlam_
or the _Mint_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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This I hope will account for the
uncommon
style of all my
letters to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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NATURE I
Winters know
Easily to shed the snow,
And the
untaught
Spring is wise
In cowslips and anemonies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So I turned to
scornful
cries,
Hot iron songs to save the rest of me;
Plunging the brand in my own misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But spite of that and lasting,
And hours of
sleepless
care,
The soul of Andrew Jackson
Shone forth in glory there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
_
CHORUS
So has she spoken--be it yours to learn
By clear
interpreters
her specious word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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þat wē þone
gebringan
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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sweetest
of all minions!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Mark still glow his steeds of brass,
Their gilded collars
glittering
in the sun;
But is not Doria's menace come to pass?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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, nisi quod in G super _Syria_ linea est solito
tenuior
8
_audiebant
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I will effuse egotism, and show it underlying all--and I will be the bard
of personality;
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the
other;
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present--and can be
none in the future;
And I will show that, whatever happens to anybody, it may be turned to
beautiful results--and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful
than death;
And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are
compact,
And that all the things of the
universe
are perfect miracles, each as
profound as any.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
It
was of course my soul in its
ultimate
essence that I had reached.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"
THE BRIDGE
I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were
striking
the hour,
And the moon rose o'er the city,
Behind the dark church-tower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Such
confutation was surely not needed; for the
narrative
is on the
face of it a romance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Iacchus was an epithet of the god
Dionysus
(Bacchus) and the name of the torch-bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries, herald of the child born of the underworld.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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--And whom doth he intend
To name as his
successor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Sara Teasdale |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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tance,
VVorse, then you do the
Bailies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
In details
Tennyson
follows the novel sometimes very closely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite
indifferent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The Scene changes,
presenting
Ludlow Town and the President
Castle, then com in Countrey-Dancers, after them the attendant
Spirit, with the two Brothers and the Lady.
| Guess: |
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But, again, where cause
Of that disease has faced about, and back
Retreats sharp poison of
corrupted
frame
Into its shadowy lairs, the man at first
Arises reeling, and gradually comes back
To all his senses and recovers soul.
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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passeden
sorowfuly ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Whether at
Naishapur
or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, wild and terrible; for my ears are crowded
with cries of
conquered
nations and sighs for forgotten lands.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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