Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Morgante
said, "Get up, thou sulky cur!
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Byron |
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The
injustice
of men is great.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
That
ungracious
young lady in blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To weave the
garlands
of repose !
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Marvell - Poems |
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I then,
approaching
to him, thus address'd
The Cyclops, holding in my hands a cup
Of ivy-wood, well-charg'd with ruddy wine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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what matter 'if God himself only acts or is in
existing beings or men,' as Blake
believed?
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Yeats |
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])
PURGANAX:
This
magnanimity
in your sacred Majesty
Must please the Pigs.
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Shelley |
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Thou ne'er wilt leave my riper age
To low intrigue, or
factious
rage;
For oh!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A queen should never dream on summer eves,
When
hovering
spells are heavy in the dusk:--
I think no night was ever quite so still,
So smoothly lit with red along the west,
So deeply hushed with quiet through and through.
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Sara Teasdale |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
And his Aunt Jobiska made him drink
Lavender
water tinged with pink;
For she said, "The World in general knows
There's nothing so good for a Pobble's toes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke,
At least wee'l dye with
Harnesse
on our backe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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`Suffiseth
this, my fulle freend Pandare, 610
That I have seyd, for now wostow my wo;
And for the love of god, my colde care
So hyd it wel, I telle it never to mo;
For harmes mighte folwen, mo than two,
If it were wist; but be thou in gladnesse, 615
And lat me sterve, unknowe, of my distresse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Christmas
celebrated anew, mentioned full often.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In Lo Town how fine
everything
is!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But the
earth of the hill
crumbled
and heroes[20] perished.
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Li Po |
|
If "seven
lusters" can be taken
literally
for thirty-five years, this poem was
written in 1627.
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Robert Herrick |
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By its style this
beautiful
example of old simplicity and feeling may be
referred to the early years of Elizabeth.
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Golden Treasury |
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The beautiful image
with which this poem concludes
suggested
itself to me while I was
resting in a boat along with my companions under the shade of a
magnificent row of sycamores, which then extended their branches from
the shore of the promontory upon which stands the ancient, and at that
time the more picturesque, Hall of Coniston, the Seat of the Le
Flemings from very early times.
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William Wordsworth |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This fierce sea-lion of the sea,
This England lacks some
stronger
lay,
This modern world hath need of thee!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My songs cease, I abandon them,
From behind the screen where I hid I advance
personally
solely to you.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Still laugh,
Like the
credulous
Ethiop in his faith in stars!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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TAUNUS, a
mountain
of Germany, on the other side of the Rhine; now
Mount _Heyrick_, over-against _Mentz_.
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Tacitus |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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As I pass down the corridor
past
desperate
faces at each cell,
your eyes and my eyes may meet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the
language
of the Prince,
Harsh as it is, and big with threats to us.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson, But is fit only to rot in
womanish
peace
Far from where worth 's won and the swords clash For the death of such sluts I go rejoicing;
Yea, I fill all the air with my music.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Upon her silken
avalanche
of down,
Dying she breathes a long and swooning sigh;
And watches the white visions past her flown,
Which rise like blossoms to the azure sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Donne as usual is pedantically
accurate
in the details of his
metaphor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these
strangers
in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Strathallan's Lament^1
Thickest night, o'erhang my
dwelling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
' 70
She took the packet, and the smile
Deepened
down beneath the tear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Some
folks
declared
that he had taken the money to America.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
In a set
Garden beside a
channelled
rivulet,
Culling a myrtle garland for his brow,
He walked: but hailed us as we passed: "How now,
Strangers!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The word was formerly a "Cicisbeo,"[211]
But _that_ is now grown vulgar and indecent;
The
Spaniards
call the person a "_Cortejo_,"[212]
For the same mode subsists in Spain, though recent;
In short it reaches from the Po to Teio,
And may perhaps at last be o'er the sea sent:
But Heaven preserve Old England from such courses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
Her
beautiful
bold brow,
When rites and forms before his burning eyes
Melted like snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were encompassd by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright Paradises of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas
Mountains
& Rivers {Minor grammatical changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I
wandered
up, I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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How now,
Ulysses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Additional
terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"
"I think ere long 'twill be a needless task,"
Replied my friend; "thou shalt be of the train,
And know them all; this
captivating
chain
Thy neck must bear, (though thou dost little fear,)
And sooner change thy comely form and hair,
Than be unfetter'd from the cruel tie,
Howe'er thou struggle for thy liberty;
Yet to fulfil thy wish, I will relate
What I have learn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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From floor to ceiling,
Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
But front their silent pipes no anthem pealing
Startles the
villages
with strange alarms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Indian hate an'
deviltry
he braved;
'N' scores an' scores of white men's lives he saved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The funeral, which was
performed
without exterior pomp or a procession
of images, drew its solemnity from the loud praises and amiable memory
of his virtues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
And Betty's
drooping
at the heart,
That happy time all past and gone,
"How can it be he is so late?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"You are right, lady; I only arrived
yesterday
from the country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Skyward the souls of its
defenders
rose,
Returning soon in mist intangible
That flashed with radiance of half-hidden swords;
And those who still assaulted--though they crept
Into the inmost vantage-points, with craft--
Fell, blasted namelessly by this veiled flash,
Even as they shouted out, "The place is ours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
As strange a question as
this was, I
hesitated
not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Ite, concinite in modum
'O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 120
O Hymen Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
, _stadio et gymnasiis_
mutata specie metri cum in hac quoque parte uersus (sic ut in
priore, 54 _et earum omnia adirem_)
admissus
esset in primo pede
ionicus a minore _st?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
in?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
And, as by sense
Of new delight, the man, who perseveres
In good deeds doth perceive from day to day
His virtue growing; I e'en thus perceiv'd
Of my ascent,
together
with the heav'n
The circuit widen'd, noting the increase
Of beauty in that wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are
in a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation information page at
www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
--
And yet, why am I
sorrowful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The hillsides must not know it,
Where I have rambled so,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go,
Nor lisp it at the table,
Nor
heedless
by the way
Hint that within the riddle
One will walk to-day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
To some extent this is no doubt
explained
by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion, hindered him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Paradiso
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Hampered
by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus
in his fright misses the line of way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Like Maia's son he stood,
And shook his Plumes, that Heav'nly
fragrance
filld
The circuit wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
After our departure,
the
servants
will probably all go out, or go to sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_a_) RVen: _sublimia_ G et plerique ||
_religans_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Lamachus
is well content; no doubt he is well paid, you
know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Il se demene sous sa
couverture
grise
Et descend ses genoux a son ventre tremblant,
Effare comme un vieux qui mangerait sa prise,
Car il lui faut, le poing a l'anse d'un pot blanc,
A ses reins largement retrousser sa chemise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
I do not believe that the game is to be found in
England; though the drawing on Twelfth Night may be thought to
bear some kind of coarse
resemblance
to it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Galba's affability only served to strengthen the gaping
ambition of his newly powerful friends, for his
weakness
and credulity
halved the risk and doubled the reward of treason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Within a whyl the hert [y]-founde is,
Y-halowed, and
rechased
faste
Longe tyme; and at the laste, 380
This hert rused and stal away
Fro alle the houndes a prevy way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
LIX
"Of a
deceitful
leech she made assay,
Well fitted for the work she had in hand,
Who better knew what deadly poisons slay
Than he the force of healing syrup scanned;
And promised him his service to repay
With a reward exceeding his demand,
When he should, with some drink of deadly might,
Of her detested husband rid her sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
]
[Footnote 72: Leaders of the Russian faction against John Ernest, Duc de
Biren, Grand Chamberlain, and
favourite
of the Tzarina, Anne Ivanofna.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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He put
himself under the care of a medical man, who
promised
great things, and
made him endure severe bodily pain, without any good results.
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Shelley |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Es konnte kaum ein
herziger
Narrchen sein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now
Vengeance
wins the day--the deed is done!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Does it solve readily with
the sweet milk of the breasts of the mother of many
children?
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Whitman |
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How has my reason
strayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynne orderr founde;
Wydhoute unlikenesse
nothynge
could bee made.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_Sweet Basil_, a
fragrant
aromatic plant.
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Keats |
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She was
standing
at
the window, looking over to Knocknarea where Queen Maive is thought to
be buried, when she saw, as she told me, 'the finest woman you ever saw
travelling right across from the mountain and straight to her.
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Yeats |
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