So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater being woo'd of time;
For canker vice the
sweetest
buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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BOOK XXIX
To Think of Time
1
To think of time--of all that retrospection,
To think of to-day, and the ages
continued
henceforward.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Je sens fondre sur moi de lourdes epouvantes
Et de noirs bataillons de fantomes epars,
Qui veulent me
conduire
en des routes mouvantes
Qu'un horizon sanglant ferme de toutes parts.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Noi passamm' oltre, e io e 'l duca mio,
su per lo scoglio infino in su l'altr' arco
che cuopre 'l fosso in che si paga il fio
a quei che
scommettendo
acquistan carco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I admire it much, and
yesterday
I set the following verses to
it.
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Robert Forst |
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Oh, some
scholar!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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e sone his fader mette,
Wel
myldeliche
he him grette,
And bad him of his guode.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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, _friend, protector_, especially the
_beloved
ruler_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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As now I take thee down with deep devotion,
In thee I
venerate
man's wit and art.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XVI
But
wherefore
do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To Hygelac send, if Hild {6d} should take me,
best of war-weeds, warding my breast,
armor excellent,
heirloom
of Hrethel
and work of Wayland.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I met one who had loved me madly
And told his love for all to hear--
But we talked of a
thousand
things together,
The past was buried too deep to fear.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And a sweet
concurring
stream
Of all joys to join with them.
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Robert Herrick |
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Eufeniens
ansuered
sone,
As he au?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Soon shall we know whereof the bale-fires tell,
The beacons, kindled with
transmitted
flame;
Whether, as well I deem, their tale is true.
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Aeschylus |
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_Quel ch' infinita
providenza
ed arte.
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Petrarch |
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As flame they part
Half
wheeling
to the Shield, half to the Spear.
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Milton |
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Then, dear, 'tis not astonishing that you are so eloquent
and clever;
henceforward
you shall be our leader, so put your great ideas
into execution.
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Aristophanes |
|
II
THIRD OPAL
_He won her love; and so this opal sings
With all its tints in maze, that seem to quake
And leap in light, as if its heart would break:_
Gleam of the sea,
Translucent air,
Where every leaf alive with glee
Glows in the sun without shadow of grief--
You speak of spring,
When earth takes wing
And sunlight, sunlight is
everywhere!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Solemn and invented gravely
In its bulk the fabric stood,
Even as Love, that
trusteth
bravely
In its own exceeding good
To be better than the waste
Of time's devices; grandly spaced,
Seriously the fabric stood.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Dumb are those names
erewhile
in battle loud;
Dream-footed as the shadow of a cloud,
They flit across the ear:
That is best blood that hath most iron in 't,
To edge resolve with, pouring without stint
For what makes manhood dear.
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James Russell Lowell |
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They threw up the filthy rain-water from the hollow lines
And then the water ran back
Full of
brownish
foam bubbles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The heart asks
pleasure
first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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291
He
grantede
him forte clo?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They
were very kind and considerate, and from their words evidently gathered
that I was
extremely
drunk.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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CEPHISE, the river Cephissus in Boeotia whose waters
possessed
the
power of bleaching the fleece of sheep.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Come in joy,
Brother, and take to bind thy
rippling
hair
My crowns!
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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The claw of the tender bird
Finds lodgment here;
Dye-winged
butterflies
poise;
Emmet and beetle steer
Their busy course; the bee
Drones, laden, near.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Sure when
religion
did itself embark.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Wherefore
great mother of gods, and mother of beasts,
And parent of man hath she alone been named.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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As I approached the ravine I
heard from afar
confused
shouts, and the voice of my Saveliitch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection
of Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In situations
less conspicuous probably lay some of those who were, a few years
later, the terror of Carthage: Caius Duilius, the founder of the
maritime greatness of his country; Marcus Atilius Regulus, who
owed to defeat a renown far higher than that which he had derived
from his victories; and Caius Lutatius Catalus, who, while
suffering from a grievous wound, fought the great battle of the
AEates, and brought the First Punic War to a
triumphant
close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[42] This was easier than against a citizen because of the inferiority,
in which the pride of the
Athenian
held those born on other soil.
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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They are alive and well somewhere,
The
smallest
sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the
end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He
was as proud as the poor Spaniard who on a bitter day rejected the
friendly offer of a cloak with the words 'A gentleman does not feel
the cold,' and his pride was
continually
fretted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
CANTO VII
After their courteous greetings joyfully
Sev'n times exchang'd, Sordello
backward
drew
Exclaiming, "Who are ye?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The sense
requires
us to read:
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
You should never try to
understand
women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
To a great degree, also, the conduct of the
Correggios
sanctioned the
revolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my
gracious
numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At first, the elf-like laughter of a
streamlet
roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which hastened onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till unobserved its sobbing echoes died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Phlaccus, at
Professor
Channing-Cheetah's
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Look, look I the very embers of themselves
Have caught the altar with a
flickering
flame,
While I delay to fetch them: may the sign
Prove lucky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Virtue and Vice joined in our mixed Nature; the limits near,
yet the things
separate
and evident: What is the Office of Reason, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
O Silence, after life's
bewildering
din,
Thou art most welcome, whether in the sear
Days of our age thou comest, or we win 580
Thy poppy-wreath in youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Thou art the mystic homeless One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy
strings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
There is no pause (the knack
Is
perfect)
while his left hand pulls from out a stack
Leather —I think —the track
Curves sharp, and will not let me see
Just what the task .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
SAS}
Fled with the noise of
Slaughter
& the stars of heaven Fled
Jerusalem came down in a dire ruin over all the Earth
She fell cold from Lambeths Vales in groans & Dewy death
The dew of anxious souls the death-sweat of the dying
In every pillard hall & arched roof of Albions skies
The brother & the brother bathe in blood upon the Severn
The Maiden weeping by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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O the vision of winning my favor makes easy
Hitherto
unexplored
paths, under that powerful foot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
660
Ah,
desperate
mortal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is
incumbent
upon
me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the
public, or very creditable to myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Solemn, solemn the
coachman
gets ready to go:
"Chiang, chiang" the harness bells ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
VI
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such
quantity
of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
They may be modified and printed and
given away - you may do
practically
_anything_ with public domain
eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach,
Prometheus
by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
I
recollect
it well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
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 |
|
Three
of his household beside him, lying carelessly among their arms, and the
armour-bearer and
charioteer
of Remus go [331-364]down before him,
caught at the horses' feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
XI
He would have been in peril on that day,
Had he been made of
vulnerable
mould;
And might have learned was 'twas to cast away
His sword, and, weaponless, so play the bold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
CCXXIII
And the eighth column hath Naimes made ready;
Tis of Flamengs, and barons out of Frise;
Forty
thousand
and more good knights are these,
Nor lost by them has any battle been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Enough to have made the fortune of Delphi or Hammon, and no thanks
to Beelzebub
neither!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Such varlets pimp and jest for hire among the lying Greeks:
Such varlets still are paid to hoot when brave
Licinius
speaks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR, THE
UNGENTLE
GUEST
One silent night of late,
When every creature rested,
Came one unto my gate,
And knocking, me molested.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
In the juvescence of the year
Came Christ the tiger
In
depraved
May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering Judas,
To be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk
Among whispers; by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Do you tell
fortunes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
And in matters of this nature it must be confessed
that
adequate
events are as necessary as the _vates sacer_ to record
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Epitaph On My Ever
Honoured
Father
O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains,
Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
a terrible space
recovring
in winter dire
Its wasted strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Thought's new-found path
Shall supplement henceforth all trodden ways,
Match God's equator with a zone of art,
And lift man's public action to a height
Worthy the enormous cloud of witnesses,
When linked
hemispheres
attest his deed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Though
friendly
praise hath but its hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
O ye
misguided
souls!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
And
everywhere
it is endless, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Even as you list invite your many guests;
But if, as now it seems, your vision rests
With any
pleasure
on me, do not bid
Old Apollonius--from him keep me hid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Happy then be your life, too: in it
antiquity
lives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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J'enlace et je berce son ame
Dans le reseau mobile et bleu
Qui monte de ma bouche en feu,
Et je roule un puissant dictame
Qui charme son coeur et guerit
De ses
fatigues
son esprit.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_wrongly
inserts_
of _after_ out.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Who speak the secret of
impassive
earth?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Give back, I pray, Xanthus and Simois to a
wretched people, and let the
Teucrians
again, O Lord, circle through the
fates of Ilium.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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du wirst mir's nicht
verwehren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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