Vielleicht
hat, dankbar fur den heil'gen Christ
Mein Liebchen hier, mit vollen Kinderwangen,
Dem Ahnherrn fromm die welke Hand gekusst.
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"The lights that on the violet sea poured down,
The suns that set behind some far-off town,
Lit in our hearts the unquiet wish to fly
Deep in the glimmering distance of the sky;
"The loveliest
countries
that rich cities bless,
Never contained the strange wild loveliness
By fate and chance shaped from the floating cloud--
And we were always sorrowful and proud!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Riddel if she will favour
him with a perusal of any of her
poetical
pieces which he may not have
seen.
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Robert Burns |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay
tremulous
on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye winds would hear
A voice
surpassing
far Amphion's lyre,
Your furious chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
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Golden Treasury |
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Meantime the menial train with
unctious
wood
Heap'd high the genial hearth, Vulcanian food:
When, early dress'd, advanced the royal heir;
With manly grasp he waved a martial spear;
A radiant sabre graced his purple zone,
And on his foot the golden sandal shone.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Anakim, that they
formerly
existed, shown.
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James Russell Lowell |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
[Sub-Variant 7: This couplet was
withdrawn
in 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
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Troubador Verse |
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LXXVIII
"And he a larger field for
speaking
well
Will find, than blaming womankind withal;
And of a hundred worthy fame may tell,
For one whose evil deeds for censure call.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In a burnt, ashen land, where no herb grew,
I to the winds my cries of anguish threw;
And in my thoughts, in that sad place apart,
Pricked gently with the
poignard
o'er my heart.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine
principle
of the
creative impulse in man.
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Rilke - Poems |
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All changes of form and all
suggestive
changes of punctuation have
been recorded.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Nor easily now is food disseminate
Through all its veins; nor is that food enough
To equal with a new supply on hand
Those
plenteous
exhalations it gives off.
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Lucretius |
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Hold, take my Sword:
There's
Husbandry
in Heauen,
Their Candles are all out: take thee that too.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XCIII
When in the spring the swallows all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders softened to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And
swelling
buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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Sappho |
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And on
Antiphates first, for first he came, the bastard son of mighty Sarpedon
by a Theban mother, he hurls his javelin and strikes him down; the
Italian cornel flies through the yielding air, and, piercing the gullet,
runs deep into his breast; a
frothing
tide pours from the dark yawning
wound, and the steel grows warm where it pierces the lung.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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or "the meeting
point of two highways," so characteristically
described
in the twelfth
book of 'The Prelude'?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses,
including
legal
fees.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then Beowulf's glory
eager they echoed, and all averred
that from sea to sea, or south or north,
there was no other in earth's domain,
under vault of heaven, more valiant found,
of
warriors
none more worthy to rule!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Earl, the first
Christian
Caesar drew to the East
To leave the Pope dominion in the West
He gave him all the kingdoms of the West.
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Tennyson |
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* LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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afraid,
She hears the bear behind her press,
Nor dares the
skirting
of her dress
For shame lift up the modest maid.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose
thoughts
are full of indices and surds?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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By what star
Did I steer
homeward?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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2 Heng and Jie are
mountains
in the northeast.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Though your buried wealth surpass
The unsunn'd gold of Ind or Araby,
Though with many a ponderous mass
You crowd the Tuscan and Apulian sea,
Let Necessity but drive
Her wedge of adamant into that proud head,
Vainly
battling
will you strive
To 'scape Death's noose, or rid your soul of dread.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Nobody repairs it,
For nobody wears it;
It is a living way,
As the
Christians
say.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thou
shouldst
have called me
to share thy doom; in the self-same hour, the self-same pang of steel
had been our portion.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A fals
traitour
than shulde I be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You did not
acquaint
him, S^r?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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true
daughter
of Old Time thou art!
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Poe - 5 |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Still thou art blest,
compared
wi' me!
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Golden Treasury |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 324 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_ What
squeezing
and pushing, what rustling and hustling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I am so sore bounde him til,
From his servyse I may not fleen; 4595
For lyf and deth,
withouten
wene,
Is in his hand; I may not chese;
He may me do bothe winne and lese.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O Jewish woman, if thou knewest all
The hunger and the tears the punisht world
Suffers by cause of thee, and of my dream
That thou wert
somewhere
hidden in mankind!
| 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 can surmise the
struggle
that ensues--
The eyes lose sight of it and words refuse
To tell the story in its gory might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Oh may I live
resembling
thee,
And die at last as thou hast died;
So that hereafter men may see,
Within the choir, a form of air,
Standing with arms outstretched in prayer,
As one that hath been crucified!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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`Wherfore
I wol deffyne in this matere,
That trewely, for ought I can espye, 835
Ther is no verray wele in this world here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A swan from time past
remembers
it's he
Magnificent yet struggling hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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how else from bonds be freed,
Or
otherwhere
find gods so nigh to aid?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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In the alleys, in the squares,
Begging, lying little rebels;
In the noisy thoroughfares,
Struggling
on with piteous trebles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Sift this
untoward
strife
On which thy mind is bent:
See if this chaff of life
Is worth the trouble spent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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_
For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O never, never Scotia's realm desert;
But still the patriot, and the patriot-bard
In bright
succession
raise, her ornament and guard!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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We call your
thoughts
home,--as
Ye breathe our perfume,--
To the amaranth's splendour
Afire on the slopes;
To the lily-bells tender,
And grey heliotropes;
To the poppy-plains keeping
Such dream-breath and blee
That the angels there stepping
Grew whiter to see:
To the nook, set with moly,
Ye jested one day in,
Till your smile waxed too holy
And left your lips praying:
To the rose in the bower-place,
That dripped o'er you sleeping;
To the asphodel flower-place,
Ye walked ankle-deep in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Ah,
Chloris!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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for of thy too
perilous
bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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--whate'er it be 'tis doubtless right;
Our friar, to console her, takes delight;
Thy
business
too is managed as before,
And anxious care bestowed upon thy store.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Nay how will you do for a
Husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
He is the hero of the inserted poem on the
Attack in Finnsburg, the obscure incidents of which are, perhaps, as
follows: In Finn's castle, Finnsburg, situated in Jutland (1126-28), the
Hōcing, Hnæf, a relative--perhaps a brother--of
Hildeburg
is spending some
time as guest.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"
But the rest: "Fame we prized till to-day;
Yet that hearts keep us green for old kindness we prize now
A
thousand
times more!
| 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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My hand in
dedicative
worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_
So the dreams depart,
So the fading
phantoms
flee,
And the sharp reality
Now must act its part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime
breathed
the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The
colour black preponderates in her; all that she
inspires
is nocturnal
and profound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a
floating
spirit's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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earthbound bride &
bridegroom
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Shelley, you feel, sings like a
bird; Blake, like a child or an angel; but Coleridge
certainly
writes
music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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What thing should I say to thee
To pierce the pride of lust
wrapping
thy heart?
| 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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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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There, in the
windless
night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
| 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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Lives there a man beneath the
spacious
skies
Who sacred honours to the bard denies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Its stem will stretch to the length of
three or four feet--thus preserving its head above water
in the
swellings
of the river.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Imperishably
pure beyond all things below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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3 50
TIRAGE DE LUXE:
25
exemplaires
numerotes sur Hollande, 6 fr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Shall I really ever see such
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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He admired Omar's Genius so much, that he would gladly
have adopted any such
Interpretation
of his meaning as Mons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them--
yet we make little or no
account!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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this
'_boyar's_' child will die, and all for
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Otherwise
'tis light, and not heavy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
--it is a ram from the thickets of Engedi, and as
rugged as the valley of
jehosaphat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As there is no means of
deciding
which
of these two has the better authority, my choice of readings has been
guided by personal preference.
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Li Po |
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O, what a
weariness
is our poor life,
What misery!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A Golgotha, upon whose carrion clay
Justice of myriad men still in the womb
Shall heave two crosses; crucify and flay
Two memories accurs'd; then in the tomb
Of world-wide
execration
give them room.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And still within a summer's night
A something so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too
inspecting
face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XII
Two hostile bullets in mid-air
Together
shocked,
And swift were locked
Forever in a firm embrace.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the
parallels
in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet there be some
disloyal
Catholics,
And many heretics loyal; heretic throats
Cried no God-bless-her to the Lady Jane,
But shouted in Queen Mary.
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Tennyson |
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