High on a throne, with stars of silver graced,
And various artifice, the queen she placed;
A
footstool
at her feet: then calling, said,
"Vulcan, draw near, 'tis Thetis asks your aid.
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Iliad - Pope |
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e
prophete
went for?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O muse, o alto ingegno, or m'aiutate;
o mente che
scrivesti
cio ch'io vidi,
qui si parra la tua nobilitate.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To me the sea is a continual miracle;
The fishes that swim--the rocks--the motion of the waves--the ships, with
men in them,
What stranger
miracles
are there?
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Whitman |
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LXXIV
But be contented: when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for
memorial
still with thee shall stay.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"There is not a man in
England," said Coleridge, with truth, "whose thoughts, images, words, and
erudition have been published in larger
quantities
than _mine_; though
I must admit, not _by_, nor _for_, myself.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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FRAGMENT
C.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And it is not
irrelevant
to add (it
seems to me mere fact), that Milton had the greatest motive that has
ever ruled a poet.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He'd whetted his knife upon pendil and hone
Till he'd not got a spittle to moisten the stone;
So ere he could work--though he'd lost the whole day--
He must wait the new broach and
bemoisten
his clay.
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John Clare |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then when the
_Puppies_
came, what would you doe?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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350
`So
sholdestow
endure, and late slyde
The tyme, and fonde to ben glad and light.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The virgin souls that to the Lamb are near,
Called through the clouds with voices heavenly clear,
God hath
prepared
a glory for thy brow,
Rest in his arms, and all ye hosts that sing
His praises ever on untired string,
Chant, for a mortal comes among ye now;
Do homage--"'Tis a king.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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CONTENTS
Now to please my little friend
I Cyprus, Paphos, or Panormus
II What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of
sevenbranched
candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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GROTESQUE
Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me
When I pluck them;
And writhe, and twist,
And strangle
themselves
against my fingers,
So that I can hardly weave the garland
For your hair?
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Imagists |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Some prepare warm water in cauldrons bubbling over the
flames, and wash and anoint the chill body, and make their moan; then,
their weeping done, lay his limbs on the pillow, and spread over it
crimson raiment, the
accustomed
pall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Di oggimai che la Chiesa di Roma,
per
confondere
in se due reggimenti,
cade nel fango, e se brutta e la soma>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Arrows entered
Zhaoyang
Palace, reed pipes moaned at Thinwillow Camp.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There were five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench--and three
Whispered their dying
messages
to me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A slave to love's
unbounded
sway,
He aft has wrought me meikle wae;
But now he is my deadly fae,
Unless thou be my ain.
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Robert Burns |
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I will strip the life from the bulb
until the ivory layers
lie like
narcissus
petals
on the black earth.
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Imagists |
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I never saw her, yet love her true,
She never was
faithful
or untrue;
I do well when she's not in view,
Not worth a cry,
I know a nobler, fairer too
To any eye.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And listened to the silent
secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Robert Forst |
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Maybe
God will in very deed
vouchsafe
to me
Belated healing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the
conqueror
silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now, like two lions panting for the prey,
With dreadful
thoughts
they trace the dreary way,
Through the black horrors of the ensanguined plain,
Through dust, through blood, o'er arms, and hills of slain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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They are of sick and
diseased
imaginations who
would toll the world's knell so soon.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A subtle chain of countless rings
The next into the farthest brings,
And,
striving
to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems, by
A.
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Tennyson |
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Were mankind
murderous
or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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To avoid
problems
with
the text, all the abbreviated words in this passage have been
written out in full.
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John Donne |
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_ Why, if I wept, it were no remedy;
And do not _thou_ spend labour on the air
To
bootless
uses.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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'
CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',
And will, thy soul knows, is
admitted
there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For in the world,
familiar
now, appears
No snare to tempt; so rare a light and true
Shines e'en from heaven my secret conscience through,
Of lost time and loved sin the glass it rears.
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Petrarch |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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One's
thoughts
can only wander towards two great heroines of "lost" plays,
Althaea in the _Meleager_, and Stheneboea in the _Bellerophon_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour savourer en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses
silences
gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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490
Thys mie adented shielde, thys mie warre-speare,
Schalle telle the
falleynge
foe gyf Hurra's harte can feare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'I claim you, old friend,' yawned the arm-chair,
'This corner, you know, is your seat;'
'Best your
slippers
on me,' beamed the fender,
'I brighten at touch of your feet.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I knew this maid,
But she's in
Paradise!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fixed; 'tis fixed as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But
strength
of mind is exercise, not rest:
The rising tempest puts in act the soul,
Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
first Traveller takes it up for another draught; but is
surprised
to
find that the same Water which had tasted sweet from his own hand
tastes bitter from the earthen Bowl.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thine eyes are rolling a tempestuous light
Above, below, around,
As putting thunder-questions without cloud,
Reverberate without sound,
To
universal
nature's depth and height.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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On these
occasions his
daughter
Emily emerged from her wonted retirement and
did her part as gracious hostess; nor would any one have known from
her manner, I have been told, that this was not a daily occurrence.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Over men's hearts, as over
standing
corn,
Rushes, and bends them to its own strong will.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[This beautiful and accomplished lady, the heavenly Burnet, as Burns
loved to call her, was daughter to the odd and the elegant, the clever
and the
whimsical
Lord Monboddo.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_How much further this_ order _and_ subordination _of
living creatures may extend, above and below us; were
any part of which broken, not that part only, but the
whole connected_
creation
_must be destroyed_.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Does he beat his wife with a gold-topped pipe,
When she lets the
gooseberries
grow too ripe, or ROT,
The Akond of Swat?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To house the hag, you must do this:
Commix with meal a little piss
Of him bewitch'd; then
forthwith
make
A little wafer or a cake;
And this rawly bak'd will bring
The old hag in.
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Robert Herrick |
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--lead me, hand
me in thy
clutching
palsied fist, up those heights, and through those
thickets, hitherto inaccessible, and impervious to my anxious, weary
feet:--not those Parnassian crags, bleak and barren, where the hungry
worshippers of fame are breathless, clambering, hanging between heaven
and hell; but those glittering cliffs of Potosi, where the
all-sufficient, all powerful deity, Wealth, holds his immediate court
of joys and pleasures; where the sunny exposure of plenty, and the hot
walls of profusion, produce those blissful fruits of luxury, exotics
in this world, and natives of paradise!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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40
saepe illam audiui furtiua uoce loquentem
solam cum ancillis haec sua flagitia,
nomine dicentem quos diximus, ut pote quae mi
speraret
nec linguam esse nec auriculam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And Nilus with his broken horn lies in his black and oozy bed
And till thy coming will not spread his waters on the
withering
corn.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_
[93] Dramatis
Personae
1716, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Fair
YDELNESSE
than saugh I, YDELNESSE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The honorable orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning
the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing the syllables "sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him,
tranquil
and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders, that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Two fathers of the great
Cornelian
name,
With their three noble sons who shared their fame,
One singly march'd before, and, hand in hand,
His two heroic partners trod the strand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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(Lifting her veil)
Then I kiss you, a
thousand
thousand kisses
For all the days ere I had won to you
Beyond the walls and gates you barred so close.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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'Twill shine by the shore of the flood,
to folk of mine
memorial
fair
on Hrones Headland high uplifted,
that ocean-wanderers oft may hail
Beowulf's Barrow, as back from far
they drive their keels o'er the darkling wave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I speak to the
rebellious
woman Vashti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
To fancy with a motive, to
contemplate
with consideration, to be
happy sweetly, to suffer nobly--and then to empty the cup so that
tomorrow may fill it again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
XXXVI
And by degrees upon him grew
A lethargy of sense, a trance,
And soon
imagination
threw
Before him her wild game of chance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But value dwells not in particular will:
It holds his
estimate
and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"
Great Britain disapproves "the stars;"
Disparagement discreet, --
There 's
something
in their attitude
That taunts her bayonet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Chimene
It is just, great King, that a
murderer
perish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Si te fais aussi
requeste
70
Que ta pitie nu me veste,
Car je n'ay nulle autre rente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Infanta
My
inclination
has changed its object.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
{32c} Usual
euphemism
for death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A something in a summer's day,
As slow her flambeaux burn away,
Which
solemnizes
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Low in the sheltered valley stands his cot,
He hears the mountain storm and feels it not;
Winter and spring, toil ceasing ere tis dark,
Rests with the lamb and rises with the lark,
Content his
helpmate
to the day's employ
And care neer comes to steal a single joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
_The_ DOGE _as Prisoner, and the_ DUCHESS
_attending
him_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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And the dying man: 'Not
unavenged
nor long, whoso thou art, shalt
thou be glad in victory: thee too an equal fate marks down, and in these
fields thou shalt soon lie.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the upturned faces of a thousand
Roses that grew in an
enchanted
garden,
Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe--
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death--
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted
By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.
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Poe - 5 |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Their breakfast done, the pair, though loth, must part;
Wanderers
whose course no longer now agrees.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I saw the interminable corps, I saw the
processions
of armies,
I saw them approaching, defiling by with divisions,
Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of
mighty camps.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the
most
esteemed
life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when
little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence
suitable for immortality.
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Whitman |
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
Sweet
laughter
siezd me in my sleep!
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Blake - Zoas |
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And now I only remember my dead Joy in
remembering
my dead Sorrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Here shall you trace in flowing operation,
In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization,
Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth
before you,
You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then
bread baked by the bakers,
You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and
on till they become bullion,
You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a
composing-stick is,
You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders,
shedding
the printed leaves steady and fast,
The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No
violence
will I bear!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He had been supplying four or five London
journals of good standing with free
contributions
for some time past,
and had received it appears great encouragement from their editors.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Prickles
is waspish, and puts forth his sting, 404.
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Robert Herrick |
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Add to this intense delight in
life, with all its mystery, beauty, and power, the keen zest for learning
which filled the air that men breathed, and it is easy to understand that
the time was ripe for a new and
brilliant
epoch in literature.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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