That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making
lascivious
comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And ever his children, when
breaking
their bread,
Thought of him and rose up and blessed him as dead.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
Englishman
heard, it is said, with wonder, the sarcastic
sallies and eloquent bursts of the inspired Scot, who, in his turn,
surveyed with wonder the remarkable corpulence, and listened with
pleasure to the independent sentiments and humourous turns of
conversation in the joyous Englishman.
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Robert Forst |
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e
blykkande
belt he bere ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And when I sing my songs my
neighbours
come not to listen.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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)
Chalo ghar ko jaldi,
jhampani!
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Kipling - Poems |
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How
terribly
they strove, and struck from morn to eve unspent,
Amid the fatal fiery ring, enamoured of the fight!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In the second
collection
in the Trinity College,
Dublin MS.
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John Donne |
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To begin with, there are all the volumes and
pamphlets
concerning
themselves with the question whether the Rowley
poems were written by Chatterton or by Rowley, or by both (Chatterton
adding matter of his own to existing poems written in the fifteenth
century), or by neither.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
DAMOETAS
"How lean my bull amid the
fattening
vetch!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A Heaven, which childhood
represents
on earth.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I
received
your last, and was much entertained with it; but I will not
at this time, nor at any other time, answer it.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a
runcible
spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No sleepers must
sleep in those beds;
No bargainers' bargains by day--no brokers or speculators--Would they
continue?
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Whitman |
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Suche
fantasyes
ben in myn hede
So I not what is best to do.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And every morning brings such pleasure
Of sweet love-making, harmless sport:
Love, that makes and finds its treasure;
Love,
treasure
without measure.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The willow trees glisten,
The
sparrows
chirp under the eaves; but the face in my heart
Is a secret of music.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Shulde be therfor fallen in despeyr,
Or be
recreaunt
for his owene tene,
Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Why the Puritans are any more
appropriate
Gifford does not vouchsafe
to tell us.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She ne'er before did thy departure see,
But
Flordelice
aye followed thee," she cries:
"Well aided mightest thou have been by me;
For I on thee should still have kept my eyes;
And when Gradasso came behind thee, I
Thee might have succoured with a single cry;
CLXI
"And haply I so nimbly might have made
Between you, that the stroke I might have caught,
And with my head, as with a buckler, stayed:
For little ill my dying would have wrought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A smile
Bat painted on her cheek; and her fix'd gaze
Bent on the point, at which my vision fail'd:
When thus her words
resuming
she began:
"I speak, nor what thou wouldst inquire demand;
For I have mark'd it, where all time and place
Are present.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I cast my hook in a single stream;
But my joy is as though I
possessed
a Kingdom.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sur ce teint fauve et brun le fard etait
superbe!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sweet and joyous lady, know
Without your loving, there,
I die, my heart it breaks so
The pulse is
scarcely
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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]
XXIV
But such is not my project now,
So let us to the ball-room haste,
Whither at headlong speed doth go
Eugene in hackney
carriage
placed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We may observe
a similar contrivance in our own old-fashioned tea-urns which
are provided with a receptacle for a red-hot iron
cylinder
in
center.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For how do I hold thee but by thy
granting?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I think that in practical life there is
something
about success, actual
success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that is
scrupulous always.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Il se sent
ereinte!
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--By Dian's hind
Feeding from her white fingers, on the wind
I see thy
streaming
hair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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So with me, who when I
followed
a
praetor, inscribed more gifts than gains.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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bear,
And let yon
mendicant
our plenty share:
And let him circle round the suitors' board,
And try the bounty of each gracious lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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By Sense rule Space and Time; but in God's Land
Their intervals are not, save such as lie
Betwixt successive tones in concords bland
Whose loving
distance
makes the harmony.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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why are these awful
warriors
here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And why not players strut in courtiers'
clothes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Poet's Progress
A Poem In Embryo
Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice
maternal
I complain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A fifth assailant now
Is set against our fifth, the northern, gate,
Fronting
the death-mound where Amphion lies
The child of Zeus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Professor
Dowden
justifies his plan of relegating the Fenwick and other notes to the end
of each volume of his edition, on the ground that students of the Poet
'must' take the trouble of hunting to and fro for such things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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I am weak--weak--
last night if the guard
had left the gate unlocked
I could not have
ventured
to escape,
but one thought serves me now
with strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
Then Tristram, ever
dallying
with her hand,
'May God be with thee, sweet, when old and gray,
And past desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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ALABASTER
Like this alabaster box whose art
Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
Carven with
delicate
dreams and wrought
With many a subtle and exquisite thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The
blissful
meadows beckoned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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UPON FLOOD OR A
THANKFUL
MAN.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I could not help deploring the weakness of the honest
soldier who, against his own judgment, had decided to abide by the
counsel of ignorant and
inexperienced
people.
| 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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Let Paphos take the mirror:
did she press
flowerlet
of flame-flower
to the lustrous white
of the white forehead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And swung their
frenzied
hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yet I mark'd it was a hymn
Of lofty praises; for there came to me
"Arise and conquer," as to one who hears
And
comprehends
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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From this town the road
followed
along by the rugged banks of the R.
| 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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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And I shal sone, I hope, a
counseyl
finde
You to delivere, and fro this noyse unbinde;
I Iuge, of every folk men shal oon calle
To seyn the verdit for you foules alle.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The crust
Came drawn from
underneath
in flakes, like scales
Scrap'd from the bream or fish of broader mail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oxford, Oxford, for
Lancaster!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Three quarters were consum'd of it;
Only
remained
a little bit,
Which will be burnt up by-and-by;
Then, Julia, weep, for I must die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Hiawatha, when she asked him,
Took no notice of the question,
Looked as if he hadn't heard it;
But, when pointedly appealed to,
Smiled in his
peculiar
manner,
Coughed and said it 'didn't matter,'
Bit his lip and changed the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Lang_
Have You Nothing to Say for
Yourself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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O harder e'en than
toughest
heart of oak,
Deafer than uncharm'd snake to suppliant moans!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
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: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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, NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
* * * * *
Transcriber's Notes: Archaic and variable spelling and
hyphenation
are
preserved.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Now, when the ill news was brought to Achilles, he fell into a great
passion of grief; which
lamentation
Thetis, his mother, heard from
the sea-deeps; and came to him, bidding him not go forth to the war
till she had brought him new armour from Vulcan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
[23]
Restored
from Tab.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And what in me seems wanting, but that I 450
May also in this poverty as soon
Accomplish
what they did, perhaps and more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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40
Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Where'er the
radiance
of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Ni quod inomati Triviae sint forte capilli,
Huic sed sollicit^
distribuantur
acu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Suddenly, a pair of
prancing
horsemen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And pounc'd with stars it showed to me
Like a
celestial
canopy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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For thus men seyn, "That oon
thenketh
the bere,
But al another thenketh his ledere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Not a
firelock
flashed against them!
| 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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And many a stock
Remaineth yet, because of use to man,
And so
committed
to man's guardianship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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That the winds are really not infectious,
That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea, which is so
amorous after me;
That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its
tongues,
That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves
in it,
That all is clean for ever and for ever,
That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
That blackberries are so
flavorous
and juicy,
That the fruits of the apple-orchard, and of the orange-orchard--that
melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
Though probably every sphere of grass rises out of what was once a catching
disease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
This is the
alchemical
fusion of male and female principles which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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--he read, and read, and read,
'Till his brain turned--and ere his twentieth year,
He had unlawful
thoughts
of many things:
And though he prayed, he never loved to pray
With holy men, nor in a holy place--
But yet his speech, it was so soft and sweet,
The late Lord Velez ne'er was wearied with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
(Replied the Thunderer to the martial maid;)
Deem not
unjustly
by my doom oppress'd,
Of human race the wisest and the best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The triumph won, the bridle all its own,
Without one curb I stand within its power,
And my
destruction
helplessly presage:
It guides me to that laurel, ever known,
To all who seek the healing of its flower,
To aggravate the wound it should assuage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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, ceteris posset haberi
praestabilior, nisi tot tantasque passus esset
correctiones
ut non raro
uix dinoscatur quid uetus scriba exararit, quid emendator intulerit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Heardst thou not, that those who die
Awake in a world of
ecstasy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The nervous tension was
stronger
than it
had been two years before, and I felt the heat more acutely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
'Too short a century of dreams,
One day of work sufficient length:
Why should not you, why should not I
Attain heroic
strength?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Wenn du als
Jungling
deinen Vater ehrst,
So wirst du gern von ihm empfangen;
Wenn du als Mann die Wissenschaft vermehrst,
So kann dein Sohn zu hohrem Ziel gelangen.
| 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's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
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John Clare |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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That sword
Shrink into a
sceptre!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But were the Devil's sight as keen
As Reason's penetrating eye,
His
sulphurous
Majesty I ween,
Would find but little cause for joy.
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Shelley |
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Let thy aching sorrow make
Something
strangely beautiful
Of this fabric; since the wool
Comes so tinted from the Fates,
Dyed with loves, hopes, fears, and hates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_Grushie_, thick, of
thriving
growth.
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Robert Forst |
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Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon I heard again a tapping
somewhat
louder than before.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When an angel of kindness
Saw, doomed to the dark,
Men framed in his likeness,
He sought for a spark--
Stray gem of God's glory
That shines so serene--
And, falling like lark,
To
brighten
our story,
Pure Pity was seen.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Housman's
poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and
fragrant
mental and
emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is
ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and
ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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bewægned, a
ἃπαξ
λεγόμενον, tr.
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Beowulf |
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