The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all
worldlings
try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Carman's method, apparently, has been to imagine each
lost lyric as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable
flavour of the translation is maintained throughout, though accompanied by
the fluidity and freedom of purely
original
work.
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Sappho |
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This third edition of the American issue of Bēowulf will, the editors hope,
be found more accurate and useful than either of the
preceding
editions.
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Beowulf |
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Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and
thistle!
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Poe - 5 |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given
admiring
praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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' And
authority, by bribing people to conform,
produces
a very gross kind of
over-fed barbarism amongst us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***
******* This file should be named 1934-0.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen ades O
Hymenaee!
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Latin - Catullus |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Elvire
You'd never believe how he's admired, or
How with one voice, they praise them so,
The
glorious
deeds of this young hero.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And none more boastingly weep his ruin than
they that
procured
and practised it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Each jotting versicles in turn sported
first in this metre then in that,
exchanging
mutual epigrams 'midst jokes
and wine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Io non piangea, si dentro impetrai:
piangevan
elli; e Anselmuccio mio
disse: "Tu guardi si, padre!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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5 May our Ziyun be pure and guard himself,6 12 this day you have been raised to an
official
post.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and,
heralding
the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England
possessed
for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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For if such tedious sleep like death appear,
Such
watching
is like life, I will not say,
Since -- such my lot, beyond all wont, severe --
I death in watching, life in sleep assay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Wait for a space without, but wait not long;
This is the house of violence and wrong:
Some rude insult thy
reverend
age may bear;
For like their lawless lords the servants are.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1110
They know the
inflexible
rigour of my sadness.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like Christmas snows where dark ways wind,
Like sea-pearls about turquoise twined,
Like
moonlight
silver when combined
With a loved book's rare gold.
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Rilke - Poems |
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--Out of it we
Had like
imaginations
stept to be
Beauty and golden wonder; and for the lovely fear
Of coming perfect joy, had changed
The terror that dreamt there!
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The monstrous
parricide!
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Wilde - Poems |
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[The Tragedie of Macbeth by William
Shakespeare
1603]
Actus Primus.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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190
Three times the shadows have
obscured
the sky,
Since sleep has entered in your saddened eye:
Three times has day driven night from the firmament,
While your body languished without nourishment.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I wished to follow them, but
Pugatchef
said--
"Stay there, I wish to speak to you!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Yea, it
forgives
me all my sins,
Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme,
And tunes the task each day begins
By the last trumpet-note of Time.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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He had already formed the habit of writing in a
journal, not the facts but the thoughts and
inspirations
of the day;
often, also, good stories or poetical quotations, and scraps of his own
verse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Could I have lifted you to the roof of the greenhouse, my Dear,
I should have
understood
their burning.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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- Welch erbarmlich Grauen
Fasst
Ubermenschen
dich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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1590
Ci sourt as gens novele rage,
Ici se changent li corage;
Ci n'a mestier sens, ne mesure,
Ci est d'amer volente pure;
Ci ne se set conseiller nus;
Car Cupido, li fils Venus,
<<
So
cercleth
it the welle aboute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sin I am free,
Sholde I now love, and putte in Iupartye
My sikernesse, and
thrallen
libertee?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In _Cynthia's Revels_ the process was
perfectly conscious, for in the
Induction
to that play the characters
are spoken of as Virtues and Vices.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Militant
England (Prince Arthur) is assisted
by the clergy (Squire) with his horn (Bible) and is guided by Truth and
Common Sense (Dwarf).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and
resinous
logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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O Alberto tedesco ch'abbandoni
costei ch'e fatta indomita e selvaggia,
e dovresti
inforcar
li suoi arcioni,
giusto giudicio da le stelle caggia
sovra 'l tuo sangue, e sia novo e aperto,
tal che 'l tuo successor temenza n'aggia!
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Morn is
supposed
to be,
By people of degree,
The breaking of the day.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Their outrage will be
ornament
upon her!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For well the soul, if stout within,
Can arm
impregnably
the skin;
And polar frost my frame defied,
Made of the air that blows outside.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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In another unplaced fragment of the Assyrian text [11] Enkidu rejects
his mistress also,
apparently
on his own initiative and for ascetic
reasons.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At the Commandant's window I saw
Chvabrine
standing, with a
face of dark hatred.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Hail, lovely Sirmio, and
gladly greet thy lord; and joy ye,
wavelets
of the Lybian lake; laugh ye
the laughters echoing from my home.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XIX
When of that bloody, dear-brought victory
The scarcely joyful tale Astolpho knew,
He, seeing evermore fair France would be
Secure from mischief from the Moorish crew,
Homeward to send the king of Aethiopy
Devised,
together
with his army, through
The sandy desert, by the self-same track,
Through which he led them to Biserta's sack.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For Youthe set bothe man and wyf
In al perel of soule and lyf; 4890
And perel is, but men have grace,
The [tyme] of youthe for to pace,
Withoute
any deth or distresse,
It is so ful of wildenesse;
So ofte it doth shame or damage 4895
To him or to his linage.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The dragon they cast,
the worm, o'er the wall for the wave to take,
and surges
swallowed
that shepherd of gems.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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<
poscia che noi intrammo per la porta
lo cui
sogliare
a nessuno e negato,
cosa non fu da li tuoi occhi scorta
notabile com' e 'l presente rio,
che sovra se tutte fiammelle ammorta>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Emendarunt _claris_ Itali:
_doctis_ Statius: _hilaris_ Unger:
_floris_
Peiper.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Go thou to him, speak soft and
soothing
words--
Thee, and none other, will he bear to hear,
As well I know.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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`And this
suffyseth
right y-now, certeyn,
For to destroye our free chois every del.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE VOICE OF THE VOID
I warn, like the one drop of rain
On your face, ere the storm;
Or tremble in
whispered
refrain
With your blood, beating warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the second series of poems published, a
facsimile
of her
handwritten poem which her editors titled "Renunciation" is given,
and I here transcribe that manuscript as faithfully as I can,
showing _underlined_ words thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_ [A humorous
misspelling
of _sceptic_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For Time, in taking him, had oped
An
unexpected
door
Of bliss for me, which grew to seem
Far surer than before .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
That admiral has bent his head down deep,
And
thereafter
lowers his face and weeps,
Fain would he die at once, so great his grief;
He calls to him Jangleu from over sea.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But it is
threaded
with gold and powdered with scarlet beads.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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at is
bygynnyng
of alle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Rood_, stands
likewise
for the plural, roods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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So sung they, and the
Empyrean
rung,
With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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zu des Geistes Flugeln wird so leicht
Kein
korperlicher
Flugel sich gesellen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too apparent in the very manner and
intensity
of
expression.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to
imprudent
guests,
Where the vanquished dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Later, in the _Child Memorial Volume_ of _Studies
and Notes in Philology and
Literature_
(1896), he gave a
somewhat fuller description of _N_ and descriptions of _S_
(the Stephens MS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK AND NEW PROEM
AGAINST A
TELEOLOGICAL
CONCEPT
And walking now
In his own footprints, I do follow through
His reasonings, and with pronouncements teach
The covenant whereby all things are framed,
How under that covenant they must abide
Nor ever prevail to abrogate the aeons'
Inexorable decrees,--how (as we've found),
In class of mortal objects, o'er all else,
The mind exists of earth-born frame create
And impotent unscathed to abide
Across the mighty aeons, and how come
In sleep those idol-apparitions,
That so befool intelligence when we
Do seem to view a man whom life has left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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--
Say the Saints: Fresh souls
increase
us,
None languish or recede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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IN A
PROSPECT
OP FLOWERS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I lived upon the mercy of the fields,
And oft of cruelty the sky accused;
On hazard, or what general bounty yields,
Now coldly given, now utterly refused,
The fields I for my bed have often used:
But, what
afflicts
my peace with keenest ruth
Is, that I have my inner self abused,
Foregone the home delight of constant truth,
And clear and open soul, so prized in fearless youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It
affected indeed a tone of high-flown
adoration
which thinly veiled a
cynical contempt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
Thus with new ardour he the brave inspires;
Or thus the fearful with
reproaches
fires:
"Shame to your country, scandal of your kind;
Born to the fate ye well deserve to find!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Perhaps,
supported
at another's board!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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De meme qu'autrefois nous
partions
pour la Chine,
Les yeux fixes an large et les cheveux au vent,
Nous nous embarquerons sur la mer des Tenebres
Avec le coeur joyeux d'un jeune passager.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The
faithful
witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| 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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_Post
_fratres_
Bod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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But
sickness
gnaws him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Darwin no more injured the significance of
_Paradise
Lost_
than air-planes have injured Homer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
If you
discover
a Defect in this etext within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an explanatory note within that
time to the person you received it from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
motion and reflection are
especially
for you;
The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
In sleep I heard the northern gleams;
The stars they were among my dreams;
In sleep did I behold the skies,
I saw the
crackling
flashes drive;
And yet they are upon my eyes,
And yet I am alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
It's ne'ssary to take a good
confident
tone
With the public; but here, jest amongst us, I own 60
Things look blacker 'n thunder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And
friendly
brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He was a Gentleman, on whom I built
An
absolute
Trust.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_180
She cannot know how well the supine slaves
Of blind authority read the truth of things
When written on a brow of guilelessness:
She sees not yet
triumphant
Innocence
Stand at the judgement-seat of mortal man, _185
A judge and an accuser of the wrong
Which drags it there.
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Shelley |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But, in 1836, he altered it still further in detail;
and in that state
practically
left it, apparently not caring to revise
it further.
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William Wordsworth |
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My hand-waled curse keep hard in chase
The harpy, hoodock, purse-proud race,
Wha count on poortith as disgrace;
Their tuneless hearts,
May fireside
discords
jar a base
To a' their parts.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But now the winds sing through and shake
The
hurtling
chains wherein I hang,
And I, in my naked sorrows, make
Much mirth for my enemy.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A street
Enter DUKE HUMPHREY and his men, in
mourning
cloaks
GLOUCESTER.
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Shakespeare |
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ALEXKSANDR POUSHKIN, the Poet, was born at
Petersburg
in 1799 of good
family, and died before he was forty, in the prime of his genius.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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