FAUST [_with a bunch of keys and a lamp, before an iron door_]
A long
unwonted
chill comes o'er me,
I feel the whole great load of human woe.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd
laughing
up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my april tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with thoughtless Mirth I cours'd the plain, 1793.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Fitfully, and in flashes, through his soul,
Like sun-lit tempests,
troubled
transports roll;
His bosom heaves, his Spirit towers amain, [120]
Beyond the senses and their little reign.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She returned to Hyderabad in
September
1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Verflucht
voraus die hohe Meinung
Womit der Geist sich selbst umfangt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
The
industrious
labour of some editors in disinterring the trivial works
of great men is not a commendable industry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Why broughtest thou that beast to haunt
The blissful
footsteps
of my golden dream?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Now know'st thou not thine own ill furniture,
To bid these
strangers
in, to whom for sure
Our best were hardship, men of gentle breed?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Awed by what I had heard and read of these
mournful approaches to the dead, I was
contented
to view them at my feet
from the top of a high mountain.
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Petrarch |
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id quale qualest chartis
mandatum
diu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know
What's roundly smooth or
languishingly
slow;
And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360
Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join.
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Alexander Pope |
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Nay, rather shalt thou die
Only with me; one bolt will do for both:
Or, if the gold of solemn dreams stand proof,
Thou shalt be heard through sounding streets of Heaven In new-taught words, at one with utter joy:
Or otherwhere,
unconquered
still, thy voice
A little shall make faint the din of Hell.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Poetic Art
For Charles Morice
Music above everything,
The
Imbalanced
preferred
Vaguer more soluble in air
Nothing weighty, fixed therein.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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His
dress was royally magnificent, the nobles who
attended
him displayed all
the riches of silk and embroidery, and the music of Melinda resounded
all over the bay.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wenn Ihr mir die
Erlaubnis
gebt,
Ihn meine Strasse sacht zu fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There is one
seaboard
district known as
Roughley, where the men are never known to shave or trim their wild red
beards, and where there is a fight ever on foot.
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Yeats |
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_ A
variation
on Horace's theme: "Rem facias,
rem, si possis, recte, si non quocunque modo, rem".
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Robert Herrick |
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In dust, in rain, with might and main,
He nursed his cotton, cursed his grain,
Fretted for news that made him fret again,
Snatched at each telegram of Future Sale,
And thrilled with Bulls' or Bears'
alternate
wail --
In hope or fear alike for ever pale.
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Sidney Lanier |
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O rolling
maddened
eyes!
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Aeschylus |
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Tra male gatte era venuto 'l sorco;
ma
Barbariccia
il chiuse con le braccia
e disse: <>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One word is due in candour to the degree in which the study of
contemporary writings may have tinged my composition, for such has
been a topic of censure with regard to poems far more popular, and
indeed more
deservedly
popular, than mine.
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Shelley |
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310
He too was mute: and, ere her weeping ceased,
He rose, and to the ruin's portal went,
And saw the dawn opening the silvery east
With rays of promise, north and
southward
sent;
And soon with crimson fire kindled the firmament.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Must I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming,
returning
with spring?
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Whitman |
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Or so much as it needes,
To dew the
Soueraigne
Flower, and drowne the Weeds:
Make we our March towards Birnan.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Death is a
dialogue
between
The spirit and the dust.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Poor Vadius, long with learned spleen devoured,
Can taste no pleasure since his shield was scoured;
And Curio,
restless
by the fair one's side,
Sighs for an Otho, and neglects his bride.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Belonging
to an old family.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[179]
--Yet, hast thou found that Freedom spreads her power 620
Beyond the cottage-hearth, the cottage-door:
All nature smiles, and owns beneath her eyes
Her fields peculiar, and
peculiar
skies.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Says
Chemubles
"My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And Durendal I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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]
[Footnote 11: The prose account of the
alchymical
process is as follows:--
"There was red mercury, a powerfully acting body, united with the tincture
of antimony, at a gentle heat of the water-bath.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Faltered the column, spent with shot and sword;
Its bright hope
blanched
with sudden pallor;
While Hancock's trefoil bloomed in triple fame.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Chimene
It would offend the King who
promised
justice.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The man who was war commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down
Pennsylvania
Avenue--
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
for the sake of the Boy, for the sake of the Republic.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CHORUS
But by whose word, whose craft, wert thou
impelled?
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Aeschylus |
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He suffered from
rheumatic
fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Ever the words of the Gods resound,
But the porches of man's ear
Seldom in this low life's round
Are
unsealed
that he may hear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now confess,
Didst ever think my
daughter
would be a queen?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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His is
stronger
every way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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net (This file was
produced from images generously made
available
by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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stod,
&
grantede
him wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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That is the terme
prescribed
by the spell.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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INDEED so fickle proved this giddy youth,
That nothing long would please his heart or tooth;
Howe'er he earnestly inquired her name,
And ev'ry other
circumstance
the same.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Ay, Regulus and the
Scaurian
name,
And Paullus, who at Cannae gave
His glorious soul, fair record claim,
For all were brave.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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S'el fu si bel com' elli e ora brutto,
e contra 'l suo fattore alzo le ciglia,
ben dee da lui
procedere
ogne lutto.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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How shall a blind man dare
Venture along the roaring crowded street,
Or
branching
roads where I may never hit
The way he has gone?
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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,
criticism
of _Devil is an Ass_, lxxviii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'
Notes: I have altered the
position
of the reference to Luserna in the poem for clarity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Miscreant
brides!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of
this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A day will come in the lapse
of cycles, when the house of Assaracus shall lay Phthia and famed
Mycenae in bondage, and reign over
conquered
Argos.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Like mighty
footlights
burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far theatricals of day
Exhibiting to these.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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that well-worn name, and all his own,
Pale he
surrenders
at the tyrant's throne!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or
gluttoning
on all, or all away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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All have not appeared in the form of
snowflakes
but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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PHEDRE
TO SARAH BERNHARDT
HOW vain and dull this common world must seem
To such a One as thou, who should'st have talked
At Florence with Mirandola, or walked
Through the cool olives of the Academe:
Thou should'st have gathered reeds from a green stream
For Goat-foot Pan's shrill piping, and have played
With the white girls in that Phaeacian glade
Where grave
Odysseus
wakened from his dream.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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What wonder seized my soul when first I view'd
How motionless the
restless
racer stood,
Whose flying feet, with winged speed before,
Still mark'd with sad mutation sea and shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana purchased with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to
equalise
the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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lines to
Donne I have printed in the
introduction
(_Text and Canon, &c.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
200
A giant moan along the forest swells
Protracted, and the twilight storm foretells,
And, ruining from the cliffs their deafening load
Tumbles, the wildering Thunder slips abroad;
On the high summits
Darkness
comes and goes, 205
Hiding their fiery clouds, their rocks, and snows;
The torrent, travers'd by the lustre broad,
Starts like a horse beside the flashing road;
In the roof'd [J] bridge, at that despairing hour,
She seeks a shelter from the battering show'r.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Manuscript reads father's
547
meditate]
meditate upon 1673
553 drowsie frighted] Manuscript reads drowsie flighted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Fate waits to sack Ambition's shrine
As bare as prison walls,
Where the poor
suffering
wretch bows down
To laws a lawless power hath passed;
And pride, and power, and king, and clown
Shall be Death's slaves at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
XXXVI
Before the King's face Guenes drawing near
Says to him "Sire,
wherefore
this rage and fear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Such signs were mournful and
alarming
things,
And far more weighty than conjecture brings;
Though foes made double what they heard of all,
Swore lies as proofs, and prophesied her fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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LXXVI
When afterwards she from her brother knew
Agramant's uncle, sire, and
grandsire
fell,
In treacherous wise, the first Rogero slew
And brought to cruel pass Galacielle,
Marphisa could not hear the story through:
To him she cries, "With pardon, what you tell,
Brother, convicts you of too foul a wrong,
In leaving thus our sire unvenged so long.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
ATOSSA
Long while by various visions of the night
Am I beset, since to Ionian lands
With
marshalled
host my son went forth to war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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e kynges sister sunes, & ful siker kni3tes;
112 [D] Bischop
Bawdewyn
abof bi-gine3 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
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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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
XI
Summer Storm
The panther wind
Leaps out of the night,
The snake of lightning
Is
twisting
and white,
The lion of thunder
Roars--and we
Sit still and content
Under a tree--
We have met fate together
And love and pain,
Why should we fear
The wrath of the rain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
= '"_Borachio_ (says
Min-shieu) is a bottle
commonly
of a pigges skin, with the hair
inward, dressed inwardly with rozen, to keep wine or liquor
sweet:"--Wines preserved in these bottles contract a peculiar
flavour, and are then said _to taste of the borachio_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Come
Come, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms
outstretched
to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
ON THE MEDUSA OF
LEONARDO
DA VINCI.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
It is through joy that the
individualism
of the future will develop
itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
who grumbles, and where's the
pretence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
What
countless
stores of beauty, love, ventur'd for it!
| 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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to
Eufemianes
house,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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SERVANT:
My master bids me say, the Holy Father
Has sent back your
petition
thus unopened.
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Shelley |
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Trigon & cubes divide the
elements
in finite bonds
Multitudes without number work incessant: the hewn stone
Is placd in beds of mortar mingled with the ashes of Vala {Alternate reading of "on" for "in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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To read my book the virgin shy
May blush while Brutus
standeth
by,
But when he's gone, read through what's writ,
And never stain a cheek for it.
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Robert Herrick |
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There are howling shells below me, and my
bursting
bombs reply.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He was biforn anoyed sore, 3565
But than ye doubled him wel more;
For he of blis hath ben ful bare,
Sith
Bialacoil
was fro him fare.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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exquisite
dancers in gray twilight!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" --Alas, what a
misapprehension!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"I came in
my
bounding
ship to Balclutha's walls of towers.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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why writers little claim your thought,
I guess; and, with their leave, will tell the fault:
We poets are (upon a poet's word)
Of all mankind, the
creatures
most absurd:
The season, when to come, and when to go,
To sing, or cease to sing, we never know;
And if we will recite nine hours in ten,
You lose your patience, just like other men.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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While the Plowman neer at hand,
Whistles ore the Furrow'd Land,
And the Milkmaid singeth blithe,
And the Mower whets his sithe,
And every Shepherd tells his tale
Under the
Hawthorn
in the dale.
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Milton |
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