A double
strength
of valves secured the place,
A high and narrow; but the only pass:
The cautious king, with all-preventing care,
To guard that outlet, placed Eumaeus there;
When Agelaus thus: "Has none the sense
To mount yon window, and alarm from thence
The neighbour-town?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"--And no marvel
If in those times the thunderbolts prevail
And storms are roused
turbulent
in heaven,
Since then both sides in dubious warfare rage
Tumultuously, the one with flames, the other
With winds and with waters mixed with winds.
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Lucretius |
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Fly,
messengers
that find no rest
Save in such toil as makes man blest!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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130
He hung
breathless
on her breath;
Speechless, who listened well;
Could not speak or think or wish
Till silence broke the spell.
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Christina Rossetti |
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We seek the Brocken here, on the
Walpurgis
night,
Then hold ourselves, when here, completely isolated!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Therewithal
at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lo now, your garlanded altars, 5
Are they not goodly with
flowers?
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Sappho |
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Welcome this hallowed still
retreat!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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]
[Footnote C: "The Floral games were
instituted
in France in 1324.
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Petrarch |
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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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best content
With the
cheapest
merriment;
And possess no other fear,
Than to want the Wake next year.
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Robert Herrick |
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Tankard, or spoon,
Earring, or stone,
A watch, some ancient brooch
To match the grandmamma,
Staid
sleeping
there.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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the kiss of
salutation
and parting.
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John Donne |
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Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
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protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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SONG
I SAW thee on thy bridal day--
When a burning blush came o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
The world all love before thee:
And in thine eye a
kindling
light
(Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
Of Loveliness could see.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Whose blood upon thy
threshold
lies?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She bade him offer ransom
to Achilles; and then, guided by Hermes, Priam came to the tent of
Achilles, bearing rich gifts, and he kneeled before him,
clasping
his
knees, and besought him, saying:
"Pity an old man like thy sire, different in only this,
That I am wretcheder, and bear that weight of miseries
That never man did, my cursed lips enforced to kiss that hand
That slew my children.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
whole family remarkably
attached
to their menials--Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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I was
yesterday
at Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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III
And forth he comes into the commune hall,
Where earely waite him many a gazing eye, 20
To weet what end to
straunger
knights may fall.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--A man should so deliver himself to the
nature of the subject whereof he speaks, that his hearer may take
knowledge of his discipline with some delight; and so apparel fair and
good matter, that the
studious
of elegancy be not defrauded; redeem arts
from their rough and braky seats, where they lay hid and overgrown with
thorns, to a pure, open, and flowery light, where they may take the eye
and be taken by the hand.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In the other letters, to the
Countesses
of Bedford,
Huntingdon, Salisbury, &c.
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John Donne |
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Once more the palace set in fair array,
To the base court the females take their way;
There compass'd close between the dome and wall
(Their life's last scene) they
trembling
wait their fall.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Silent he Urizeneye'd the Prince * {In the gap after this stanza, several
fragments
of erased lines appear:
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Blake - Zoas |
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And when the King our lord spendeth on us
This
festival
out of his rich heart, to shoot
Thy looks upon us as thou wouldst rebuke us?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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See her whose darling child a long year past
Has dwelt beyond the wild
Carpathian
foam;
That long year o'er, the envious southern blast
Still bars him from his home:
Weeping and praying to the shore she clings,
Nor ever thence her straining eyesight turns:
So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
Rome for her Caesar yearns.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So late in Autumn half the world's asleep,
And half the wakeful world looks pinched and pale;
For dampness now, not freshness, rides the gale;
And cold and
colorless
comes ashore the deep
With tides that bluster or with tides that creep;
Now veiled uncouthness wears an uncouth veil
Of fog, not sultry haze; and blight and bale
Have done their worst, and leaves rot on the heap.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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Seek not
temptation
then, which to avoide
Were better, and most likelie if from mee
Thou sever not; Trial will come unsought.
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Milton |
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Thou
canst set brothers once united in armed conflict, and
overturn
families
with hatreds; thou canst launch into houses thy whips and deadly brands;
thine are a thousand names, a thousand devices of injury.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thinke of brave AElfridus, yclept the grete, 135
From porte to porte the red-haird Dane he chasd,
The Danes, with whomme not lyoncels coud mate,
Who made of peopled reaulms a barren waste;
Thinke how at once by you
Norwegia
bled
Whilste dethe and victorie for magystrie bested.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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n
Hsiung 118
Golden Bells 119
Remembering Golden Bells 120
Illness 120
The Dragon of the Black Pool 121
The Grain-tribute 123
The People of Tao-chou 123
The Old Harp 125
The Harper of Chao 125
The Flower Market 126
The
Prisoner
127
The Chancellor's Gravel-drive 131
The Man who Dreamed of Fairies 132
Magic 134
The Two Red Towers 135
The Charcoal-seller 137
The Politician 138
The Old Man with the Broken Arm 139
Kept waiting in the Boat at Chiu-k'ou
Ten Days by an adverse Wind 142
On Board Ship: Reading Yuan Ch?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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*
And now just Heaven 's
prepared
to set us free,
Heaven and our hopes are both opposed by
thee.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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ou in mi sones nom,
for
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Of course, the fact that, in both these cases, regular epic did
eventually occur, must warn us that in artistic development anything may
happen; but it does seem as if there were a deeper improbability for
the occurrence of regular epic now than in the times just before Virgil
and Tasso--of regular epic, that is,
inspired
by some vital import, not
simply, like _Sigurd the Volsung_, by archaeological import.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ULALUME
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere--
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the
lonesome
October
Of my most immemorial year:
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir:--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And
presently
we oblige you to make peace.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young
persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring
form, color, perfume, to you,
If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers,
fruits, tall
branches
and trees.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet, were the knot undone,
Wherewith
my weak tongue Love is wont to bind,
Checking its speech, when her sweet face puts on
All its great charms, then would I courage find,
Words on that point so apt and new to use,
As should make weep whoe'er might hear the tale.
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Petrarch |
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89-90;
7 of ANTICHRIST, 272; how he shall go into the Holy Land, 274; slay Enoch and Eli, who have come to earth from
Paradise
to fight him, 292-6; and shall then himself be smitten to death by the Holy Ghost in the form of a sword.
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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_
O we live, O we live--
And this life we would survive,
Is a gloomy thing and brief,
Which,
consummated
in grief,
Leaveth ashes for all gain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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frenzied Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's
recreant
dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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* * * * *
I stood beside her where she lay,
But
suddenly
woke and she was not there:
And none knew how my soul was torn,
How the tears fell surging over my breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And how she danced with
pleasure
to see my civic crown,
And took my sword, and hung it up, and brought me forth my gown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They beg
Khlestakov
to secure
his deposition from office.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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All nature owns with one accord
The great and universal Lord:
Insect and bird and tree and flower--
The witnesses of every hour--
Are
pregnant
with his prophesy
And "God is with us" all reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Le vent baise ses seins et deploie en corolle
Ses longs voiles berces mollement par les eaux;
Les saules
frissonnants
pleurent sur son epaule,
Sur son grand front reveur s'inclinent les roseaux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And
outmatch
the bubbling call
From the beechwoods in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The woods closed in,
The stream grew dark,
And then
The boat was
grounded
sudden on the shoals,
And I
Said quickly that perhaps
We'd come too far.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive
you, I wish you would make me your
literary
legatee
and executor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The first recited
a decree of the Etrurians, which owned them for kinsmen: "for that
Tyrrhenus and Lydus, sons of King Atys, having between them divided
their people, because of their multitude, Lydus re-settled in his
native country; and it became the lot of
Tyrrhenus
to find out a fresh
residence; and by the names of these chiefs the parted people came
afterwards to be called, Lydians in Asia, Tyrrhenians in Italy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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I see African and Asiatic towns;
I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia;
I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Yedo;
I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their
huts;
I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo;
I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva, and those of Herat;
I see Teheran--I see Muscat and Medina, and the intervening sands--I see
the caravans toiling onward;
I see Egypt and the Egyptians--I see the pyramids and obelisks;
I look on chiselled histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of
sandstone or on granite blocks;
I see at Memphis mummy-pits,
containing
mummies, embalmed, swathed in linen
cloth, lying there many centuries;
I look on the fallen Theban, the large-balled eyes, the side-drooping neck,
the hands folded across the breast.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Close to the hearthstone, 10
With long
thoughts
of thee,
Thy lonely lover
Sits now, remembering
All the spent hours
And thy fair beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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There stood her maidens
glimmeringly
grouped
In the hollow bank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Archer, who are
seeking to restore
sincerity
to the English stage, but I am not certain
that we mean the same thing all through.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Apollinax
visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"
Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I was drunk with the dawn
Of a
splendid
surmise--
I was stung by a look, I was slain by a tear,
by a tempest of sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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C'est la fee
africaine
qui fournit
La mure, et les resilles dans les coins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My thoughts on former
pleasures
ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My pleasant home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When it comes, the
landscape
listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Ah,
Chloris!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
]
[Footnote Jj: The river Loiret, which has the honour of giving name to a
department, rises out of the earth at a place, called La Source, a
league and a half south-east of Orleans, and taking at once the
character of a considerable stream, winds under a most
delicious
bank on
its left, with a flat country of meadows, woods, and vineyards on its
right, till it falls into the Loire about three or four leagues below
Orleans.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
also Shirley, Prologue to _The
Doubtful
Heir_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There grasped me firm
and haled me to bottom the hated foe,
with
grimmest
gripe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may
threaten
its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap--'"
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
"That's exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!
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No swinging sign-board creaked from cottage elm
To stay his steps with faintness overcome;
'Twas dark and void as ocean's watery realm
Roaring with storms beneath night's starless gloom;
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No labourer watched his red kiln glaring bright,
Nor taper
glimmered
dim from sick man's room;
Along the waste no line of mournful light
From lamp of lonely toll-gate streamed athwart the night.
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to the place where the
dead
Bēowulf
lay), 3115.
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" the sage replied,
"Dost thou not mark a gleaming through the tide,
Of divers
brilliances?
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In valleys of springs of rivers,
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The country for easy livers,
The
quietest
under the sun,
We still had sorrows to lighten,
One could not be always glad,
And lads knew trouble at Knighton
When I was a Knighton lad.
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byrnan sīde (of a
corselet
extending over the legs), 1292; ofer sǣ sīde,
2395; neut.
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'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Between the lids of one
The imaged meteors had flashed and run
And had disported in the stilly jet,
And the fixed stars had dawned and shone and set,
Since God made Time and Death and Sleep: the other
Stretched his long arm to where, a misty smother,
The stream churned, churned, and churned--his lips apart,
As though he told his never slumbering heart
Of every
foamdrop
on its misty way:
Tying the horse to his vast foot that lay
Half in the unvesselled sea, we climbed the stairs
And climbed so long, I thought the last steps were
Hung from the morning star; when these mild words
Fanned the delighted air like wings of birds:
'My brothers spring out of their beds at morn,
A-murmur like young partridge: with loud horn
They chase the noon-tide deer;
And when the dew-drowned stars hang in the air
Look to long fishing-lines, or point and pare
A larch-wood hunting spear.
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"
(pauses--turns over some leaves, and resumes)
"No
lingering
winters there, nor snow, nor shower--
"But Ocean ever to refresh mankind
"Breathes the shrill spirit of the western wind.
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But as the greed
Which gives out flame, yet it its
whiteness
shines
More lively than that, and so preserves
Its proper semblance; thus this circling sphere
Of splendour, shall to view less radiant seem,
Than shall our fleshly robe, which yonder earth
Now covers.
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It
splashes
from the lead conduit of a
gargoyle, and falls from it in turmoil on the stones in the Cathedral
square.
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The motion of his quickly
shifting
feet
More savours of a run than walk or trot.
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Can he write a letter
concisely
clear
Without a speck or a smudge or smear or BLOT,
The Akond of Swat?
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Paint me a cavernous waste shore
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades,
Paint me the bold
anfractuous
rocks
Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
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_--What way, in
the name of thrift, shall I maintain myself, and keep a horse in
country quarters--with a wife and five
children
at home, on 35_l.
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In his epistle to posterity, he
endeavours
to justify
this repugnance by other motives.
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show
reverence
not less for her personality than for
her genius is sufficient answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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es;
And neither I, nor the poore
Gentlewoman
[159]
Dur?
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Infanta
Chimene, it's true he's
performed
miracles.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li ruscelletti che d'i verdi colli
del Casentin discendon giuso in Arno,
faccendo
i lor canali freddi e molli,
sempre mi stanno innanzi, e non indarno,
che l'imagine lor vie piu m'asciuga
che 'l male ond' io nel volto mi discarno.
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Lear in the maturity of sweet desipience, and
will perhaps remain the
favorite
volume of the four to grown-up readers.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[516] An image of the penis, drooping in this case, instead of standing,
carried as a phallic emblem in the
Dionysiac
processions.
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Aristophanes |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Now I know what
silenced
me.
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
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