I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
PRETENDER
and
MARINA advance as the first couple.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A clock stopped -- not the mantel's;
Geneva's
farthest
skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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e
chaunceler
wel loude grad
whan he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It is not good art
to write badly about aeroplanes and automobiles; nor is it
necessarily
bad
art to write well about the past.
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Imagists |
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_1612-69_ (_in 1612-21 it stands at head of page_)]
[The
Harbinger
_&c.
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John Donne |
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But may I learn by what thou
swearest?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They say that He can heal;
But
medicine
posthumous
Is unavailable.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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--
Much rather might this very power of mind
Be in the head, the shoulders, or the heels,
And, born in any part soever, yet
In the same man, in the same vessel abide
But since within this body even of ours
Stands fixed and appears
arranged
sure
Where soul and mind can each exist and grow,
Deny we must the more that they can dure
Outside the body and the breathing form
In rotting clods of earth, in the sun's fire,
In water, or in ether's skiey coasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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KING:
My lord,
Pray
overlook
these papers.
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Shelley |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Love_
Love, though it is not chill and cold,
But burning like eternal fire,
Is yet not of approaches bold,
Which gay
dramatic
tastes admire.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I already have made way
To some
Philistine
lords, with whom to treat
About thy ransom.
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I will bring
everything
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Aristophanes |
|
II
De sa
fourrure
blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee une fois, rien qu'une.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The one
advantage
of playing with fire is that one never gets even
singed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her
mistress
lived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Farewell
for ever; the game of bloody war,
The wide cares of my destiny, will smother,
I hope, the pangs Of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Or in one word,
whatever
you'd like best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
And
A boy
Blew west
And with prayers and incantations,
And with "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
Crossed the Appalachians,
And was "young John Chapman,"
Then
"Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Appleseed,"
Chief of the fastnesses, dappled and vast,
In a pack on his back,
In a deer-hide sack,
The
beautiful
orchards of the past,
The ghosts of all the forests and the groves--
In that pack on his back,
In that talisman sack,
To-morrow's peaches, pears and cherries,
To-morrow's grapes and red raspberries,
Seeds and tree souls, precious things,
Feathered with microscopic wings,
All the outdoors the child heart knows,
And the apple, green, red, and white,
Sun of his day and his night--
The apple allied to the thorn,
Child of the rose.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate,
Born where Heaven's
influence
scarce can penetrate:
In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like,
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Times of
primeval
innocence restor'd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
'
Of the other poems, the first--the poem which was in _1669_ printed
as Donne's seventh _Satyre_, was dropped in _1719_ but restored by
Chalmers, Grosart, and Chambers--is said in _B_ to be 'By Sir John
Roe', and it is
initialled
'J.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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They give no credit at the
provision
shops.
| 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 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thou who didst bear for me the crown of thorn,
Spitting and scorn;
Though I till now have put forth thorns, yet now
Strengthen
me Thou
That better fruit be borne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
They clapped their hands, and set up
a shout of
laughter
which shook the theatre.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To
recreate
with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MAIDENS,
daughters
of the Megarian.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Another chief appear'd, alike in name,
But short was his career of martial fame;
For
generous
valour oft to fortune yields,
Too oft the arbitress of fighting fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The
creatures
chuckled on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The minister Fang Guan, whose military ineptness had led to the defeat of�the
imperial
army at Chentao and Changban, fell from Suzong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
All you on the
numberless
islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
May I call
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright,
The heav'ns
bespangling
with dishevell'd light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
All on the pyre were plain to see
the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest,
boar of hard iron, and
athelings
many
slain by the sword: at the slaughter they fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
43
This throbbing shows what we
abandoned
44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
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original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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2: 'Mistress _Turner_, the first
inventress of _yellow Starch_, was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff
of that colour at _Tyburn_; and with her I believe that _yellow
Starch_, which so much disfigured our Nation, and
rendered
them so
ridiculous and fantastic, will receive its Funeral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
490
But yet at last, whenas the direfull feend
She saw not stirre, off-shaking vaine affright,
She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end:
Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,
That had
atchieved
so great a conquest by his might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
He counted out ninety-four-thousand
rubles and passed them to Herman, who
accepted
them without showing the
least surprise, and at once withdrew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates,
mingling
their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
_ His narration and explanation of what has
gone before is pictured as the
disentangling
of woven threads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The goat and the lion I equally hate,
And freemen alike value life and estate ;
Though the father and son be different rods,
Between the two scourgers we find little odds ;
Both
infamous
stand in three kingdoms' votes,
This for picking our pockets, that for cutting our
throats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist
With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
_
Think a little, while ye hear,
Of the banks
Where the willows and the deer
Crowd in
intermingled
ranks,
As if all would drink at once
Where the living water runs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Faith, oh my faith, what
fragrant
breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what diamonds were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Good master,
faithful
friend, in his estate
Frugal yet generous, beyond the youth
He won regard of woman, for in sooth
The young man may be fair--the old man's great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
--If
men may by no means write freely, or speak truth, but when it offends
not, why do physicians cure with sharp medicines, or
corrosives?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of broadsword and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the
conquered
town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Whig party
has a large throat,
but query as to
swallowing
spurs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
if I must choose, let Rhine-wine fill my beaker,
Our fatherland
supplies
the noblest liquor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He had money at his disposal, and my
grandmother
knew it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
254 _quae tum_ Bergk, cui post 253 uersus
excidisse
uisus est
255 _euhoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Look thou to him
And his beneficence: for he shall cause
Reversal of their lot to many people,
Rich men and beggars
interchanging
fortunes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Beautiful
women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape,
people, animals,
The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so
tell I my morning's romanza,)
All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy,
The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he
domiciles there,
Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him,
the ships in the offing,
The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Arias
Bend your pride to the king's authority:
He takes an interest, and his irritation
Will be
displayed
in no uncertain fashion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your
consciousness
and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright
Leapt on the conquered
ramparts
of the Night,
And flamed, one brilliant instant, on the world,
Then back into the historic moat was hurled
And Night was King again, for many years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Quo tibi tum casu, pulcherrima Laudamia, 105
Ereptumst vita dulcius atque anima
Coniugium: tanto te absorbens vertice amoris
Aestus in abruptum detulerat barathrum,
Quale ferunt Grai Pheneum prope Cylleneum
Siccare emulsa pingue palude solum, 110
Quod quondam caesis montis fodisse medullis
Audit falsiparens Amphitryoniades,
Tempore quo certa Stymphalia monstra sagitta
Perculit imperio deterioris eri,
Pluribus
ut caeli tereretur ianua divis, 115
Hebe nec longa virginitate foret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
The
smallest
scale upon his tail
Could hide six dolphins and a whale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
"Never," says Guene, "so long as lives Rollanz,
From hence to the East there is no such vassal;
And proof also, Oliver his comrade;
The dozen peers he
cherishes
at hand,
These are his guard, with twenty thousand Franks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Have years of care for thine and thee
Alike been all
employed
in vain?
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Byron |
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The nest was full of eggs and round--
I met a
shepherd
in the vales,
And stood to tell him what I found.
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John Clare |
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Now know we Spirit,
And Who, for ease of joy,
contriveth
Spirit.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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She reads to them at eventide
Of One who came to save;
To cast the captive's chains aside
And
liberate
the slave.
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Longfellow |
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"Nine prosperous days we plied the labouring oar;
The tenth
presents
our welcome native shore:
The hills display the beacon's friendly light,
And rising mountains gain upon our sight.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Behold, how
sorrowful
he turns away!
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Longfellow |
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TUTRSIS*
Then let us give
Corellia
charge o*the sheep.
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Marvell - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"While I've a loaf they're welcome to my
blessing
and the chaff.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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There's
something
wrong with your head.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And whan he sawe how that I
Had chosen so ententifly 1720
The botoun, more unto my pay
Than any other that I say,
He took an arowe ful sharply whet,
And in his bowe whan it was set,
He
streight
up to his ere drough 1725
The stronge bowe, that was so tough,
And shet at me so wonder smerte,
That through myn eye unto myn herte
The takel smoot, and depe it wente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat--jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin'
Christian
kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
Bloomin' idol made o'mud--
Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd--
Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
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Troubador Verse |
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You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or
bargaining
in the shops of Lassa!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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