How very much she to her lessons owed;
A little girl arrived: the husband stared
Cried he, what father of a child
declared!
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La Fontaine |
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Robert Forst |
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There is
a
difference
between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I too am
standing
ready, hand on hilt for death or life.
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Aeschylus |
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This mighty
consummation
made, the host
Mov'd on for many a league; and gain'd, and lost
Huge sea-marks; vanward swelling in array,
And from the rear diminishing away,--
Till a faint dawn surpris'd them.
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Keats |
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in pleasant places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its
loveliness
become unto me
a thing of tears.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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precious
relic of that time--
For my old age, it doth remain with thee
To make it what thou wilt.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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No help, nor hope, nor view had I, nor person to
befriend
me, O;
So I must toil, and sweat, and moil, and labour to sustain me, O;
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, O;
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for Fortune fairly, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--
I must have more
divinity
within me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Indeed there is something in that business of
destroying for our sport individuals in the animal
creation
that do
not injure us materially, which I could never reconcile to my ideas of
virtue.
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Robert Burns |
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To-morrow, a little before the close of the first hour after dawn, I
shall find the moment, and then I will go away to a
southern
land and
build myself a palace of white marble amid orange trees, and gather the
brave and the beautiful about me, and enter into the eternal kingdom
of my youth.
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Yeats |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wherefore, O hole in the wall here,
When the wind blows sigh thou for my sorrow That I have not the
Countess
of Beziers Close in my arms here.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And so they must be
furnished
with no sense.
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Lucretius |
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Thou hast thy
dangerous
demand, because
It is thou who askest, it is I who may
Grant it to thee,--this only!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LE BALCON
Mere des souvenirs,
maitresse
des maitresses,
O toi, tous mes plaisirs, o toi, tous mes devoirs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"]
XIV
Still thirst fresh draughts of wine compels
To cool the cutlets'
seething
grease,
When the sonorous Breguet tells
Of the commencement of the piece.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Things
deteriorate
in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder times.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I am
poisoned
with the rage of song.
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Imagists |
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He followed e'en, 'tis said, the other's plan--
And, thence his dishes to
exchange
began.
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La Fontaine |
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"Greet her with
applausive
breath,
Freedom, gaily doth she tread;
In her right a civic wreath,
In her left a human head.
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Tennyson |
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Though many a victim from my folds went forth,
Or rich cheese pressed for the
unthankful
town,
Never with laden hands returned I home.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And then Jean Chouan, who was leading them,
Cried: "Is there any
missing?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Unfortunately
no one either here or in China can appreciate the music of his verse,
for we do not know how Chinese was
pronounced
in the eighth century.
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Li Po |
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Single pieces of equal, a few of higher, quality, we have,
indeed, meanwhile received, not only from the master-singers who did not
confine themselves to the Lyric, but from many poets--some the unknown
contributors to our early anthologies, then Jonson, Marvell, Waller,
Collins, and others, with whom we reach the
beginning
of the wider sweep
which lyrical poetry has since taken.
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Robert Herrick |
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LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The
crickets
all are brave;
Glad is the red autumnal earth
And the blue sea.
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Sappho |
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A knight named
Musonius
Rufus had attached himself to the envoys.
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Tacitus |
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We do not solicit donations in
locations
where
we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Stephen Crane |
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thou art too dear for my possessing
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
Forget not yet the tried intent
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year
From Harmony, from
heavenly
Harmony
From Stirling Castle we had seen
Full fathom five thy father lies
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may
Gem of the crimson-colour'd Even
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine
Go, lovely Rose!
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Golden Treasury |
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(the godlike sire rejoin'd:)
Great are my hazards; but the gods survey
My steps, and send thee,
guardian
of my way.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Duckworth
& Co.
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Imagists |
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--since
conditions
vary much.
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Lucretius |
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I am to blame; carried away by pride
I have deceived God and the kings--have lied
To the world; but it is not for thee, Marina,
To judge me; I am
guiltless
before thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XXXVIII
Then gan the Pilgrim thus, I chaunst this day,
This fatall day, that shall I ever rew, 330
To see two knights in travell on my way
(A sory sight) arraung'd in battell new,
Both
breathing
vengeaunce, both of wrathfull hew:
My fearefull flesh did tremble at their strife,
To see their blades so greedily imbrew, 335
That drunke with bloud, yet thristed after life:
What more?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
As one who glancing with a sudden eye
Some unexpected object doth espy;
Then looks again, and doth his own haste blame
So in a doubting pause, this cruel dame
A little stay'd, and said, "The rest I call
To mind, and know I have o'ercome them all:"
Then with less fierce aspect, she said, "Thou guide
Of this fair crew, hast not my
strength
assay'd,
Let her advise, who may command, prevent
Decrepit age, 'tis but a punishment;
From me this honour thou alone shalt have,
Without or fear or pain, to find thy grave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And yit ne seide she never a dele,
That I ne
understode
it wele, 5140
Word by word, the mater al.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O let us kneel, the saints for aid
invoking!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A
cackling
goose among melodious swans.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The path to the file is made up of single
digits
corresponding
to all but the last digit in the filename.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Geschehn
ist leider nun geschehn
Und wie es gehn kann, so wird's gehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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it sounded like _Amen_
Said by a choir of mourning men;
An
affirmation
full of pain
And patience,--ay, of glorying
And adoration, as a king
Might seal an oath for governing.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What
generous
beliefs console
The brave whom Fate denies the goal!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Blest
distillation
rare
Of o'er-rank brightness filtered waterwise
Through all the earths in heaven -- thou always fair,
Still virgin bride of e'er-creating thought --
Dream-worker, in whose dream the Future's wrought --
Healer of hurts, free balm for bitter wrongs --
Most silent mother of all sounding songs --
Thou that dissolvest hells to make thy heaven --
Thou tempest's heir, that keep'st no tempest leaven --
But after winds' and thunders' wide mischance
Dost brood, and better thine inheritance --
Thou privacy of space, where each grave Star
As in his own still chamber sits afar
To meditate, yet, by thy walls unpent,
Shines to his fellows o'er the firmament --
Oh!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
pranking
bat its nighty circlet makes;
The glow-worm burnishes its lamp anew
Oer meadows dew-besprent; and beetle wakes
Enquiries ever new,
Teazing each passing ear with murmurs vain,
As wanting to pursue
His homeward path again.
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John Clare |
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Or, like a
starving
mountebank, expose
Thy beauty and thy tear-drowned smile to those
Who wait thy jeste to drive away thy spleen.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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" He won the
Military
Cross.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But to draw a little nearer to our
promised
topics.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His hat slouched down, and great coat
buttoned
close
Bellied like hooped keg, and chuffy face
Red as the morning sun, he takes his round
And talks of stock: and when his jobs are done
And Dobbin's hay is eaten from the rack,
He drinks success to corn in language hoarse,
And claps old Dobbin's hide, and potters back.
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John Clare |
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Close by those meads, for ever crowned with flow'rs, 65
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs,
There stands a structure of
majestic
frame,
Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name.
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Alexander Pope |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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) Then the
wrinkles
I express,
Of the heart, smile into emptiness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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They are sending me away to the south-east, to a low and swampy
land:
No one now will take pity on me:
resistance
is all in vain.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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That can, with studied, sly,
ensnaring
art,
Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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When died a noble Marquis of Lusace
'Twas custom for the heir who filled his place
Before assuming
princely
pomp and power
To sup one night in Corbus' olden tower.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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thy hairs should feel
The conqu'ring force of
unresisted
steel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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La femme au corps divin,
promettant
le bonheur,
Par le haut se termine en monstre bicephale!
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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How does this
correspond
to Jonson's life?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Reizender
schaue
Freundlich der blaue
Ather herein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow darkness
stealing
on my sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Were I to you as the boss
employing
and paying you, would that satisfy you?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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So shall one coveting no higher plane
Than nature clothes in color and flesh and tone,
Even from the grave put upward to attain
The dreams youth cherished and missed and might have known;
And that strong need that strove unsatisfied
Toward earthly beauty in all forms it wore,
Not death itself shall utterly divide
From the beloved shapes it
thirsted
for.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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where could you ha'
contented
your ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lanier says in a letter of March, 1874:
"Of course, since I have written it to print I cannot make it such
as *I* desire in artistic design: for the forms of to-day
require a certain trim smugness and clean-shaven propriety
in the face and dress of a poem, and I must win a hearing
by
conforming
in some degree to these tyrannies, with a view
to overturning them in the future.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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where the steep
Tarpeian--fittest goal of Treason's race,
The promontory whence the traitor's leap
Cured all
ambition?
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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sent to the Project
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address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When the world was formed from Chaos, then--
Earth as the Lees, and heavie dross of All
(After his kinde) did to the bottom fall:
Contrariwise, the light and nimble Fire
Did through the
crannies
of th'old Heap aspire
Unto the top; and by his nature, light
No less than hot, mounted in sparks upright:
But, lest the Fire (which all the rest imbraces)
Being too near, should burn the Earth to ashes;
As Chosen Umpires, the great All-Creator
Between these Foes placed the Aire and Water:
For, one suffiz'd not their stern strife to end.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
See 'Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East Florida,
the
Cherokee
Country', etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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I chose a book to read and dream:
Yet half the while with furtive eyes 210
Marked how she made her choice of flowers
Intuitively wise,
And ranged them with
instinctive
taste
Which all my books had failed to teach;
Fresh rose herself, and daintier
Than blossom of the peach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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What doth the poor man's son
inherit?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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2
As I wend to the shores I know not,
As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
As I inhale the
impalpable
breezes that set in upon me,
As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift,
A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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To crown Achilles' valiant friend with praise
At length he dooms; and, that his last of days
Shall set in glory, bids him drive the foe;
Nor
unattended
see the shades below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Swift at the word bold Merion snatch'd a spear
And,
breathing
slaughter, follow'd to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Our voices vary with the
changing
seasons
Of life's long year, for deep and natural reasons.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Unbridled
lust, unbounded power
So worked upon him in that hour.
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Tennyson |
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His mules was goin'
powerful
slow,
Fur he had tied the lines onto
The staple of the scraper.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Ther-with his herte gan to sprede and ryse,
And softe sighed, lest men mighte him here,
And caughte a-yein his firste
pleyinge
chere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There are unlighted torches in
brackets
on the walls.
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Yeats |
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For whan the sonne, cleer in sighte,
Cast in that welle his bemes brighte,
And that the heet
descended
is, 1575
Than taketh the cristal stoon, y-wis,
Agayn the sonne an hundred hewes,
Blewe, yelowe, and rede, that fresh and newe is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"The proper thing, as you were late,
Was
certainly
to go:
But, with the roads in such a state,
I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait
For half an hour or so.
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Lewis Carroll |
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e
prophete
blissed salt; & in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your imperishable bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your renascent loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these
pomegranate
groves.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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