_Read_
Throughout
the yerd?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Porter watches at the gate,
The
servants
watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Et c'est depuis ce temps que Lesbos se
lamente!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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per text is nominally estimated at one dollar then we produce $2
million dollars per hour in 2002 as we release over 100 new text
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We are already on our way to trying for 2000 more eBooks in 2002
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trillion
eBooks given away by year's end.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And on Sundays they rang the bells,
From Baptist and Evangelical and
Catholic
churches.
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Imagists |
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132 In their feasts, they generally deliberate on the
reconcilement
of enemies, on family alliances, on the appointment of chiefs, and finally on peace and war; conceiving that at no time the soul is more opened to sincerity, or warmed to heroism.
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Tacitus |
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other)
_sonnetes
by W.
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John Donne |
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Trust not too much to colour,
beauteous
boy;
White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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E'en now, a
helpless
wrack,
You drift, despoil'd of oars;
The Afric gale has dealt your mast a wound;
Your sailyards groan, nor can your keel sustain,
Till lash'd with cables round,
A more imperious main.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All thou couldst have of mine, stern Death, thou hast:
The parent, friend, and now the more than friend;
Ne'er yet for one thine arrows flew so fast,
And grief with grief continuing still to blend,
Hath
snatched
the little joy that life had yet to lend.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now must our
measures
and our modes be changed
An we would anywise our cause advance.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
I
interrupted
his speech.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But now he sang of faith to things unseen,
Of freedom's
birthright
given to us in trust; 50
And words of doughty cheer he spoke between,
That made all earthly fortune seem as dust,
Matched with that duty, old as Time and new,
Of being brave and true.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For thy ill life what blame on me
recoils?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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To you and to
my father Latinus I Turnus,
unexcelled
in bravery by any of old,
consecrate my life.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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bards of the peaceful
inventions!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But if any
one should order us to
celebrate
the Sun or Minerva, we ought most
gladly to sing hymns to their praise.
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Tacitus |
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, =
_necessitatem
imponere_: pret.
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Beowulf |
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The garden walks are
pleasant
at this hour;
The nightingales among the sheltering boughs
Of populous and many-nested trees
Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me
By what resistless charms or incantations
They won their mates.
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Longfellow |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But why this dwelling place, this life
Of
loneliness?
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Euripides - Electra |
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No poet will ever take the written word as a
substitute
for
the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken
word only, that his art is founded.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If thou, a
nameless
vagrant
Couldst wonderfully blind two nations, then
At least thou shouldst have merited success,
And thy bold fraud secured, by constant, deep,
And lasting secrecy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"I should like to be those two flying swallows
Who are
carrying
clay to nest in the eaves of your house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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In singing-bouts
I'll see you play the
challenger
no more.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or
seedling
there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The volume
purported
to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And cannot friends be firm and fast,
And yet bear
parting?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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What has
happened
since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most despairing of men!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E 'ntanto per la costa di traverso
venivan genti innanzi a noi un poco,
cantando
'Miserere' a verso a verso.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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75
Claustra
pandite ianuae,
Virgo ades.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The robin is the one
That
interrupts
the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Quickly breasting the wave,
Eager the prize to win,
First of us all the brave
Monongahela
went in
Under full head of steam--
Twice she struck him abeam,
Till her stem was a sorry work,
(She might have run on a crag!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hosea Biglow was preceded by the
"Idyl of the Bridge and the Monument," which set forth another side
of
American
feeling at the British words and deeds consequent on
the unauthorized capture, by Commodore Wilkes, of the "Trent,"
conveying to England two Confederate Commissioners.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Blest a hundredfold
The tie of sword and lyre; the
selfsame
laurel
Binds them in friendship.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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net),
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
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It must not be
forgotten
that Coleridge is never fantastic.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Who fears the
Parthian
or the Scythian horde,
Or the rank growth that German forests yield,
While Caesar lives?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Cast thine eye to yonder sky,
There the milky way doth lie ;
*Tis a sure, but rugged way,
That leads to
everlasting
day.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Milton |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Kentysh menne in fronte, for strenght renownd,
Next the Brystowans dare the bloudie fyghte,
And last the
numerous
crewe shall presse the grounde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
The whisper to his ear did seem
Like echoed flow of silent stream,
Or shadow of
forgotten
dream,
The whisper trembling in the wind:
"Her fate with thine was intertwined,"
So spake it in his inner mind:
[Picture: a scared dullard, gibbering low]
"Each orbed on each a baleful star:
Each proved the other's blight and bar:
Each unto each were best, most far:
"Yea, each to each was worse than foe:
Thou, a scared dullard, gibbering low,
AND SHE, AN AVALANCHE OF WOE!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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_Glo'ster_: Gilbert de Clare, son-in-law to Edward; _Mortimer_: one of
the Lords
Marchers
of Wales.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the
fragmentary
stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Curst Common-Sense, that imp o' hell,
Cam in wi' Maggie Lauder;[14]
But
Oliphant
aft made her yell,
An' Russell sair misca'd her;
This day Mackinlay taks the flail,
And he's the boy will blaud her!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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It is
certain that
satirical
poems were common at Rome from a very
early period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way
composed
for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The Hero toil-inured
Drew to his bosom close his
fainting
sire,
Who, breath recov'ring, and his scatter'd pow'rs
Of intellect, at length thus spake aloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
The sea swept in with moan and foam
Quickening
the stretch of sand;
They stood almost in sight of home;
He strove to take her hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A
blessing
undefined
Seemed left, as when church-bells declined
And left you wrapt in prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Cessez donc de chercher, o belle
curieuse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus he went on increasing in iniquity, month after
month, until, at the close of the first year, he not only insisted upon
wearing moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and
swearing, and for backing his
assertions
by bets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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* * * * *
In _New Poems_ (1907) and _New Poems, Second Part_ (1908) the historical
figure, frequently taken from the Old Testament, has grown beyond the
proportions of life; it is weightier with fate and invariably becomes
the means of
expressing
symbolically an abstract thought or a great
human destiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Man has wooed and won the world, and has fallen weary, and not,
I think, for a time, but with a
weariness
that will not end until the
last autumn, when the stars shall be blown away like withered leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of
Dalmatic
field
By Triumph crown'd with deathless bay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' Professor
Wilson's _Chatterton: a Biographical Study_ is as final in its own way
as
Professor
Skeat's two volumes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Though old Ulysses
tortured
from his slumbers
The glutted Cyclops, what care?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The
Commandant
allowed
them to approach within a very short distance, and again applied a
match to the touch-hole.
| 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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Vain
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and
raptures
holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Leconte de Lisle
'Leconte de Lisle'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p579, 1896) Internet Book Archive Images
The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the
brilliant
parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Here I myself might likewise die,
And utterly
forgotten
lie,
But that eternal poetry
Repullulation gives me here
Unto the thirtieth thousand year,
When all now dead shall reappear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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org),
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
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Rodrigue
I go not to a duel, but punishment;
My
faithful
ardour deprives me of desire
To defend myself, since you light the pyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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the wave is
freshest
in the ray
Of the young morning; the reapers are asleep;
The river bank is lonely: come away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And think me how some barter joy for care,
And waste life's summer-health in riot rude,
Of nature, nor of nature's sweets aware;
Where passions vain and rude
By calm reflection,
softened
are and still;
And the heart's better mood
Feels sick of doing ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Thou hast seen the court,
And
splendour
of Ivan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The suppression of some of these by the poet himself is as
unaccountable, as is his
omission
of certain stanzas in the earlier
poems from their later versions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yet does that burst of woe congeal my frame,
When the dark streets appeared to heave and gape,
While like a sea the
storming
army came,
And Fire from Hell reared his gigantic shape,
And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape
Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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This was the Lamentation of Enion round the golden Feast
[[End of the First Night]]y
Eternity groand and was troubled at the image of Eternal Death
Without the body of Man an Exudation from his sickning limbs
Now Man was come to the Palm tree & to the Oak of Weeping
Which stand upon the edge of Beulah & he sunk down
From the
Supporting
arms of the Eternal Saviour; who disposd
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
Upon The Rock of Ages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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With serious air indeed,
Long
tortured
by his lay divine,
Triquet arose, and for the bard
The company deep silence guard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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the crowing cock,
How
drowsily
it crew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles:
infected
mindes
To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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What
wondrous
life in this I lead!
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Golden Treasury |
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Sounds not the clang of
conflict
on the heath?
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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My
children
all are slain!
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Longfellow |
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ON THE BANKS OF JO-YEH
By the river-side at Jo-yeh,
girls
plucking
lotus;
Laughing across the lotus-flowers,
each whispers to a friend.
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Li Po |
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No, I am
speaking
of the head of the Gorgon.
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Aristophanes |
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a man must eat,
Arm,
gentlemen!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yet neither scorn nor hate did it devise,
But sad
compassion
and atoning zeal!
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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blake-poems |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Peace is patched up; a
stately funeral is held; and the surviving visitors become in a way
vassals or
liegemen
of Finn, going back with him to Frisia.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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God's righteous
judgments
ye cannot escape.
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