O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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(_I know what I must do: I am to abase
My heart utterly, and have nothing in me
That dare take
pleasure
beyond serving love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The bohemian glass on the
_étagère_
is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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The brooding and
blissful
halcyon days!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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' So saying, he
fiercely
plunges the steel full in his
breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Hast nothing for our
edification?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Low amid that glad _Belles lettres_
Grant that we may stand,
Stars, amid
profound
Galaxies,
At that grand 'Right hand'!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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III
I called in many a craftsmaster
To fix
emblazoned
glass,
To figure Cross and Sepulchre
On dossal, boss, and brass.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Chimene
It is just, great King, that a
murderer
perish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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According
to Wang An-shih, his two
subjects
are wine and women.
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Li Po |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MINUTOLO, while thus Catella spoke,
Caressed
her much, but silence never broke;
A kiss e'en tried to gain, without success;
She struggled, and refused to acquiesce;
Begone!
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La Fontaine |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Bienheureuse la cloche au gosier vigoureux
Qui, malgre sa vieillesse, alerte et bien portante,
Jette
fidelement
son cri religieux,
Ainsi qu'un vieux soldat qui veille sous la tente!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Not two strong men the
enormous
weight could raise,
Such men as live in these degenerate days:(147)
He swung it round; and, gathering strength to throw,
Discharged the ponderous ruin at the foe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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XLVII
"Think as I think," said a man,
"Or you are
abominably
wicked;
"You are a toad.
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Stephen Crane |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
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John Clare |
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Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His nostrils breathe--and on the spot
The
churning
waves turn seething hot.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Bolswert, Abraham Bloemaert, Anonymous, 1590 - 1662
The Rijksmuseum
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,
Longing to be a girl again,
Talking like this, more or less:
'Oh, old age, proud in wickedness,
You've
battered
me so, and why?
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Villon |
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The happy date
In three weeks would arrive for them;
The secrets of the
marriage
state
And love's delicious diadem
With rapturous longing he awaits,
Nor in his dreams anticipates
Hymen's embarrassments, distress,
And freezing fits of weariness.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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II
1896
CONTENTS
Peter Bell
Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks
of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798
There was a Boy
The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice
Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying
near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal
1799
Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the
Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
The Simplon Pass
Nutting
Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century
A Poet's Epitaph
"Strange fits of passion have I known"
"She dwelt among the
untrodden
ways"
"I travelled among unknown men"
"Three years she grew in sun and shower"
"A slumber did my spirit seal"
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of----
Matthew
The Two April Mornings
The Fountain
To a Sexton
The Danish Boy
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
Ruth
1800
"On Nature's invitation do I come"
"Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak"
Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle
Hart-Leap Well
The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force
The Pet-Lamb
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
Poems on the Naming of Places:
"It was an April morning: fresh and clear"
To Joanna
"There is an Eminence,--of these our hills"
"A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags"
To M.
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William Wordsworth |
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Tu credi che nel petto onde la costa
si trasse per formar la bella guancia
il cui palato a tutto 'l mondo costa,
e in quel che, forato da la lancia,
e prima e poscia tanto sodisfece,
che d'ogne colpa vince la bilancia,
quantunque
a la natura umana lece
aver di lume, tutto fosse infuso
da quel valor che l'uno e l'altro fece;
e pero miri a cio ch'io dissi suso,
quando narrai che non ebbe 'l secondo
lo ben che ne la quinta luce e chiuso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A careless shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the
glimmering
sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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Swift on her part she paid him back
with grisly grasp, and
grappled
with him.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Their trumpeters and harpers round about
Incessantly
played out,
And sometimes they made answer with a shout;
But oftener they groaned or wept,
And seldom paused to eat, and seldom slept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The mist of eve was rising,
The sun was
hastening
down,
When he was aware of a princely pair
Fast pricking towards the town.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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querying
Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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oure
renou{n}
{and} don
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus
choosing
one.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A wee Torquatus fain I'd see
Encradled on his mother's breast
Put forth his tender puds while he
Smiles to his sire with
sweetest
gest 215
And liplets half apart.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To
those who knew her in England, all the life of the tiny figure
seemed to concentrate itself in the eyes; they turned towards
beauty as the
sunflower
turns towards the sun, opening wider and
wider until one saw nothing but the eyes.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At length the summer's
eternity
is ushered in by the cackle of the
flicker among the oaks on the hillside, and a new dynasty begins with
calm security.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Er
schlaft!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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In the
editions
of 1820 and 1827 'The Prioress' Tale' followed 'The
White Doe of Rylstone'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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, _in abundance, in joyous plenty_: drēamum lifdon
ēadiglīce, _lived in
rejoicing
and plenty_, 100.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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He begged
persistently
to be allowed to retire from Court.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"We shall not quarrel for a year or two;
By
courtesy
of England, he may do.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Perhaps
omit_ to
(_as_ T.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The Temple late two brother sergeants saw,
Who deemed each other oracles of law;
With equal talents these
congenial
souls,
One lulled th' Exchequer, and one stunned the Rolls;
Each had a gravity would make you split,
And shook his head at Murray as a wit.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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A man that is on the mending hand will
either ingenuously confess or wisely
dissemble
his disease.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Passers-by, white
hammocks
in the sunlight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
These charges, at first held in constant mind, from Theseus slipped away as
clouds are
impelled
by the breath of the winds from the ethereal peak of a
snow-clad mount.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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All this
according
to Du Camp.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXX
"Blest and thrice blest the Roman
Who sees Rome's brightest day,
Who sees that long victorious pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way,
And through the
bellowing
Forum,
And round the Suppliant's Grove,
Up to the everlasting gates
Of Capitolian Jove.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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His own
personal and
national
self-reliance and arrogance, I need not tell you, I
applaud, and sympathise and rejoice in; but the blatant ebullience of
feeling and speech, at times, is feeble for so great a poet of so great a
people.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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CVIII
That count Gerins sate on his horse Sorel,
On Passe-Cerf was Gerers there, his friend;
They've loosed their reins,
together
spurred and sped,
And go to strike a pagan Timozel;
One on the shield, on hauberk the other fell;
And their two spears went through the carcass well,
A fallow field amidst they've thrown him dead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Besides, the unlike shapes don't thwart the least
The whole in being externally a cube;
But
differing
hues of things do block and keep
The whole from being of one resultant hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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A sudden spasm shook his frame,
And in his ears there went and came
A sound as of
devouring
flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about
donations
to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking
of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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]
[Sidenote H: He walks around the hill,
debating
with himself what it might
be,]
[Sidenote I: and at last finds an old cave in the crag.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Can such things be,
And
ouercome
vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our speciall wonder?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Is it for me, the
favourite
of my lord?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do,
deceiving
elf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Sure the priest is
maudlin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned
which makes the
spectacle
of life parade its dark and painful, its
ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and
exquisite aspects.
| 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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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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]
For me, whate'er my life and lot may show,
Years blank with gloom or cheered by mem'ry's glow,
Turmoil or peace; never be it mine, I pray,
To be a dweller of the peopled earth,
Save 'neath a roof alive with children's mirth
Loud through the
livelong
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And a guitar produced we see,
And
Heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Spoke the Swan, entrenched behind
An
inimitable
neck:
"After all, there's nothing sweeter
For the lawn or lake
Than simple white, if fine and flaky
And absolutely free from speck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Hovering and
glittering
on the air before the face of Thel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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{a}t art
sou{er}eyn
comfort of Angwissos corages // So
thow hast remou{n}ted {and} norysshed me w{i}t{h} the weyhte of thy
sentenses {and} w{i}t{h} delit of thy syngynge // so ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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He first communicates his design to the princes in council,
that he would propose a return to the soldiers, and that they should put a
stop to them if the
proposal
was embraced.
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Iliad - Pope |
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O tempt not the
infuriate
mood
Of that fell lion!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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How
thinketh
God on him?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
fact is, that
perseverance
is one thing and genius quite another--nor
can all the Quarterlies in Christendom confound them.
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Poe - 5 |
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La Grand-Ville a le pave chaud
Malgre vos douches de petrole
Et
decidement
il nous faut
Nous secouer dans votre role.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Be not offended:
I speake not as in
absolute
feare of you:
I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake,
It weepes, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A place there was, yet
undefiled
with gore,
The spot where Hector stopp'd his rage before;
When night descending, from his vengeful hand
Reprieved the relics of the Grecian band:
(The plain beside with mangled corps was spread,
And all his progress mark'd by heaps of dead:)
There sat the mournful kings: when Neleus' son,
The council opening, in these words begun:
"Is there (said he) a chief so greatly brave,
His life to hazard, and his country save?
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Iliad - Pope |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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Phaedra
Noble,
glittering
creator of a sad family,
You, whose daughter my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What grievous hurt hath caused thee,
Polypheme!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Snakes on the ground were
writhing
about.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And if I ne hadde endouted me
To have ben hated or assailed, 1665
My thankes, wolde I not have failed
>>
Quex sa force ert et sa vertu,
Ne m'i fusse ja embatu: 1620
Car
meintenant
ou las chai
Qui meint homme ont pris et trai.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Muse of men is coy,
Oft courted will not come;
In palaces and market squares
Entreated, she is dumb;
But my minstrel knows and tells
The counsel of the gods,
Knows of Holy Book the spells,
Knows the law of Night and Day,
And the heart of girl and boy,
The tragic and the gay,
And what is writ on Table Round
Of Arthur and his peers;
What sea and land discoursing say
In
sidereal
years.
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Emerson - Poems |
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