To see men through this meadow dive,
We wonder how they rise alive ;
As under water, none does know
Whether he fall through it or go,
But, as the
mariners
who sound,
And show upon their lead the ground,
They bring up flowers so to be seen,
And prove they've at the bottom been.
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Haply this humble boast
May win me in her fair esteem a place;
For sure the end and aim
Of all my tears, my sorrowing heart's sole claim,
Were the soft trembling of
relenting
eyes,
The generous lover's last, best, dearest prize.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
furniture
is massive, curious, and
bizarre, armed with locks and secrets, like profound and refined souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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That they have
followers
proves nothing-
"'No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man of Blackheath,
Whose head was adorned with a wreath
Of lobsters and spice, pickled onions and mice,
That
uncommon
old man of Blackheath.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This quaintness is, in fact, a very
powerful
adjunct to
ideality, but in the case in question it arises independently of the
author's will, and is altogether apart from his intention.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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an was one of the
happiest
periods of his life.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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Here is that very
Lithuanian
frontier which you so wished to reach.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_hedge in_: To secure (a debt) by
including
it
in a larger one for which better security is obtained; to include a
smaller debt in a larger.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N On her
Principles
of Liberty and
Equality.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the
swinging
and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets, --
Prodigal
of blue,
Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He bids the
reformers
in _The Philosophical Review of
Reform_ receive 'the onset of the cavalry,' if it be sent to disperse
their meetings, 'with folded arms,' and 'not because active resistance
is not justifiable, but because temperance and courage would produce
greater advantages than the most decisive victory;' and he gives them
like advice in _The Masque of Anarchy_, for liberty, the poem cries,
'is love,' and can make the rich man kiss its feet, and, like those who
followed Christ, give away his goods and follow it throughout the world.
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Yeats |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even
solitude
in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation.
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Robert Herrick |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc
ruthless
soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O, that sweet
tormenting
play,
That too fair face, that blinds when look'd upon!
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But at his touch,
Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand,
They
presently
amend.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Surely we have been
abridged
into a race of pygmies.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Thus your logic is not mine: however
I speak as a king, you as a soldier;
Whatever you say,
whatever
he believes,
No honour is lost in obeying me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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The wavering corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom
something
pale.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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this flesh how it
crumbles
to dust and is blown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In newer days of war and trade,
Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
When Science armed and guided war,
And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
When France, where poet never grew,
Halved and dealt the globe anew,
GOETHE, raised o'er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life
And brought
Olympian
wisdom down
To court and mart, to gown and town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Our task be now thy
treasured
stores to save,
Deep in the close recesses of the cave;
Then future means consult.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos, especially of
"that
peculiar
sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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but from the Universal
Brotherhood
of Eden John I c.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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" Pope thinks of
these animals as in the
unformed
stage, part "kindled into life, part a
lump of mud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her
mournful
hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
)
Are crowns the end-all of
ambition?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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No, thou know'st orders, ethics, and hast read
All oeconomics, know'st to lead
A house-dance neatly, and canst truly show
How far a figure ought to go,
Forward or backward, side-ward, and what pace
Can give, and what retract a grace;
What gesture, courtship,
comeliness
agrees,
With those thy primitive decrees,
To give subsistence to thy house, and proof
What Genii support thy roof,
Goodness and greatness, not the oaken piles;
For these, and marbles have their whiles
To last, but not their ever; virtue's hand
It is which builds 'gainst fate to stand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Lines longer than 78
characters are broken, and the continuation is
indented
two spaces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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WINDFLOWER
LEAF
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lo duca disse: <
la nostra via un poco insino a quella
bestia
malvagia
che cola si corca>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Laudantes Walking
silently
among them,
So have the thoughts of my heart
Gone out slowly in the twilight Toward my beloved,
Toward the crimson rose, the fairest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Further, if a cloud
More dry receive the fire, 'twill suddenly
Kindle to flame and burn with monstrous sound,
As if a flame with whirl of winds should range
Along the laurel-tressed mountains far,
Upburning with its vast assault those trees;
Nor is there aught that in the
crackling
flame
Consumes with sound more terrible to man
Than Delphic laurel of Apollo lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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--Among the several translators were Julius Korner, Wilhelm
Reinhold,
Heinrich
Doering, August Schumann, Christian Karl Meissner,
etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Are you alive, and lives King
Agramant?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All things within it would the world possess,
And have them in the tide of its desire:
Man hath his nature of the
vehement
world;
He is a torrent like the stars and beasts
Flowing to answer the fierce world's desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Subordinate to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his
beauteous
daughters {'In sevens & tens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He widened
knowledge
and escaped the praise;
He wisely taught, because more wise to learn;
He toiled for Science, not to draw men's gaze,
But for her lore of self-denial stern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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RAIN
It's all very well for you
suddenly
to withdraw
and say, I'll come again,
but what of the bruises you've left,
what of the green and the blue,
the yellow, purple and violet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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I'd put their own colonels and
commissioners
at the
door to turn them away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
LXII
Sin of self-love
possesseth
all mine eye
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At Sea
In the pull of the wind I stand, lonely,
On the deck of a ship, rising, falling,
Wild night around me, wild water under me,
Whipped by the storm,
screaming
and calling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Till broken by the
ceaseless
grief he fed,
He sickened and betook himself to bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Didst fight beneath the walls
Of
Seversk?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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He was Private Secretary
to the Prince of Wales, auditor of the Duchy of
Cornwall
(1796), and
Lord Warden of the Stannaries (1805).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
We may observe
a similar
contrivance
in our own old-fashioned tea-urns which
are provided with a receptacle for a red-hot iron cylinder in
center.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically
ANYTHING
in the United States with eBooks
not protected by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wilt thou not beware
Lest thy mood now press our minds to
venturous
despair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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None the longer liveth he,
loathsome
fiend,
sunk in his sins, but sorrow holds him
tightly grasped in gripe of anguish,
in baleful bonds, where bide he must,
evil outlaw, such awful doom
as the Mighty Maker shall mete him out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air
breathed
by
beings like us, who walk this sphere:
The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Five children on the long low
mattress
lie--
A nest of little souls, it heaves with dreams;
In the high chimney the last embers die,
And redden the dark room with crimson gleams.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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ELEGIAC VERSE
I
Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands,
Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,
Learned the secret from them of the beautiful verse elegiac,
Breathing
into his song motion and sound of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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" the fierce Virago cries,
And swift as
lightning
to the combat flies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Lush trees led me on as I went, joined mountains suddenly
appeared
to my gaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Ah, mark the
thunders
rolling o'er the sky;
Yes, bath'd in gore, shall rank pollution lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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When I came to myself I
remained
some time without understanding what
had befallen me, nor where I chanced to be.
| 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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But it so
happened
that
Admetus had entertained in his house the demi-god, Heracles; and when
Heracles heard what had happened, he went out and wrestled with Death,
conquered him, and brought Alcestis home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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quand tu recus tant de coups de couteau,
Quand tu gis,
retenant
dans tes prunelles claires,
Un peu de la bonte du fauve renouveau,
O cite douloureuse, o cite quasi morte,
La tete et les deux seins jetes vers l'Avenir
Ouvrant sur ta paleur ses milliards de portes,
Cite que le Passe sombre pourrait benir:
Corps remagnetise pour les enormes peines,
Tu rebois donc la vie effroyable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
I was scarcely tied
To Aegeus' son, by those laws that make a bride, 270
My false peace and happiness secured to me,
When Athens showed me my
glorious
enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Arm
yourself
then: Battle you'll have to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Her eastern line
More to the south, the Phrygian waves confine:
Those waves, which, black with many a navy, bore
The Grecian heroes to the Dardan shore;
Where now the seaman, rapt in
mournful
joy,
Explores in vain the sad remains of Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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and
described
by all
With truth and goodness, as with crown and ball.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
130
They sought the forum; countless swarm'd the throng
Behind them as they went, and many a youth
Strong and
courageous
to the strife arose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Something
o' that, I said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just
precedes
autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun hesitates before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Hippolyte
The mystery can only be
explained
by Phaedra.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Children sturdy and flaxen
Shouting
in brotherly strife,
Like the land they are Saxon,
Sons of a man and his wife,--
For a man and his loves make a man and his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
ankeden god, & glade were,
And
avoweden
in ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And if I do, when morning comes,
It is as if a hundred drums
Did round my pillow roll,
And shouts fill all my childish sky,
And bells keep saying 'victory'
From
steeples
in my soul!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
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Li Po |
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Everything
in a soldier's equipment is important, and if we
can improve that equipment, so much the better for the soldiers and for
us.
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Kipling - Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Chinese poet introduces himself as a timid recluse,
"Reading the Book of Changes at the Northern Window," playing chess with
a Taoist priest, or
practising
caligraphy with an occasional visitor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry:
`Thou Sea, thou Sea of
Darkness!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Notes: Arnaut here invents the sestina, with its fixed set of words ending the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a
different
order each time; numbering the first stanza's lines 123456, then the words ending the following stanzas appear in the order 615243, then 364125, then 532614, then 451362, and 246531.
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Troubador Verse |
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Meanwhile
The fire runs deeper,
consuming
these selves in its growth.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whom of the
celestials do men worship more
greatly?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So both ascend
In the Visions of God: It was a Hill
Of Paradise the highest, from whose top
The
Hemisphere
of Earth in cleerest Ken
Stretcht out to amplest reach of prospect lay.
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Milton |
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The
embassy of the young Tarquins to the oracle at Delphi is just
such a story as would be told by a poet whose head was full of
the Greek mythology; and the ambiguous answer returned by Apollo
is in the exact style of the prophecies which,
according
to
Herodotus, lured Croesus to destruction.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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celsae procul aspice frontis honores
suggestumque
comae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XXXV
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming
like a noise in dreams.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Sounde the loude flughorne for a quicke forloyne[95];
Lette alle the
Dacyannes
swythe untoe oure banner joyne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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That retreat a Goddess holds,
Daughter
of sapient Atlas, who the abyss
Knows to its bottom, and the pillars high
Himself upbears which sep'rate earth from heav'n.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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