Every subject was proper ground for
legitimate
study, even the
sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"I know thou
labourest
on the hill of fire,
In sweat and pain beneath a flaming sun,
To give the life and soul my vines desire,
And I am grateful for thy labours done.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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** In ail the trials he set himself,
even with
indecent
earnestness, to get the prisoners to be
always cast"
t One of the same principles with Scroggs.
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Marvell - Poems |
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No
gracious
weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of spring.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" At a later period of his
life he
returned
to Bassano, and received an appointment as censor of
the press.
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Byron |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is
sometimes
caught
Without her diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_ 109 Silent,
breathing
rage.
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Iliad - Pope |
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]
ELDRED Better this bare rock,
Though it were
tottering
over a man's head,
Than a tight case of dungeon walls for shelter
From such rough dealing.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
[Sidenote A: "I would learn," she says, "why you, who are so young and
active,]
[Sidenote B: so skilled in the true sport of love,]
[Sidenote C: and so
renowned
a knight,]
[Sidenote D: have never talked to me of love.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Only to roving he was too much given,
And foreign women and foreign wine,
And that
accursed
game of dice.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O Prince de l'exil, a qui l'on a fait tort,
Et qui, vaincu,
toujours
te redresses plus fort,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Round that little Indian girl there played
Soft an' shadowy tremblings, like the dark
Under trees; yet now an' then a spark,
Quick 's a firefly,
flashing
from her eyes,
Made you think of summer-midnight skies.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Imagists |
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250
At parte ex alia florens volitabat Iacchus
Cum thiaso
Satyrorum
et Nysigenis Silenis,
Te quaerens, Ariadna, tuoque incensus amore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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Tennyson |
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The
attendant
Spirit afterwards in the habit of Thyrsis.
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Milton |
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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her
loveliness
I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
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Golden Treasury |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Brave GAMA spake; the pagan king replies,
"From lands which now behold the morning rise,
While eve's dim clouds the Indian sky enfold,
Glorious
to us an offer'd league we hold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
Scylding
queen spoke:
"Quaff of this cup, my king and lord,
breaker of rings, and blithe be thou,
gold-friend of men; to the Geats here speak
such words of mildness as man should use.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I know not what to say nor how to act;
Now cousin Anne would with him be exact,
And better
recollect
his sage advice:--
Fool!
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La Fontaine |
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At the top it told the sorrows of an exile's heart;
At the bottom it
described
the pains of separation.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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th be
honoured
so,
bot libbe in woo & wrake; 792
(67)
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Each Knight is robed in purple,
With olive each is crowned;
A gallant war-horse under each
Paws
haughtily
the ground.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--For there are
mightier
needs!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the
children
no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In four brief cycles round the
punctual
sun
Has she, old Learning's latest daughter, won
This grace, this stature, and this fruitful fame.
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Sidney Lanier |
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None of this
Shall bend my sturdy will and make me speak
The name of his
dethroner
who shall come.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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There, in thy scanty mantle clad,
Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread,
Thou lifts thy
unassuming
head
In humble guise;
But now the share uptears thy bed,
And low thou lies!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Whoever thinks a
faultless
piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Alexander Pope |
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He taught it to his disciples, and one finds
it in its purely artistic shape in a diary written by Samuel Palmer, in
1824: 'Excess is the
essential
vivifying spirit, vital spark, embalming
spice of the finest art.
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Yeats |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, silent and deep; and in the heart of
my
loneliness
lies a Goddess in child-bed; and in him who is being
born Heaven touches Hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A mist-rain
thickens
the gloom.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" {32a}
Nor is that worthy speech of Zeno the philosopher to be passed over with
the note of ignorance; who being invited to a feast in Athens, where a
great prince's
ambassadors
were entertained, and was the only person that
said nothing at the table; one of them with courtesy asked him, "What
shall we return from thee, Zeno, to the prince our master, if he asks us
of thee?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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) Long live our mighty
sovereign!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Dost thou
remember
at Caerleon once--
A year ago--nay, then I love thee not--
Ay, thou rememberest well--one summer dawn--
By the great tower--Caerleon upon Usk--
Nay, truly we were hidden: this fair lord,
The flower of all their vestal knighthood, knelt
In amorous homage--knelt--what else?
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Tennyson |
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Whoso knew the virtues that are knit therein would
estimate
it more highly.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If he has changed--why, so must we: the attack
Were easy in the
isolated
bower, 130
Beset with drowsy guards and drunken courtiers;
But in the hall of Nimrod----
_Bel.
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Byron |
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The poem tells of the troubles of two lovers: Blancheflour, or Blancheflor ('white flower') being a Christian princess abducted by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores or Floris or Floire ('belonging to the flower') The Muslim/Christian tale is often set in
Andalusia
where there is a famous Granadan variant.
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Troubador Verse |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp,
Nicolaes
Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island;
Connecticut
takes you from a river to the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And all the while the work was done,
On as I strode with my huge strides,
I flung back my head and I held my sides,
It was so rare a piece of fun
To see the
sweltered
cattle run
With uncouth gallop through the night,
Scared by the red and noisy light!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet there are who prove
themselves masters of her, and
absolute
lords; but I believe they may
mistake their evidence: for it is one thing to be eloquent in the
schools, or in the hall; another at the bar, or in the pulpit.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
La Figlia Che Piange
Stand on the highest
pavement
of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The
uncommonly
deep snow has made him think
Of his old song, _The Wild Colonial Boy_,
He always used to sing along the tote-road.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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providing
access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[_The_ SERVANT
_reluctantly
comes close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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Ashes denote that fire was;
Respect the grayest pile
For the
departed
creature's sake
That hovered there awhile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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' and, ere the
distance
grew too wide,
'Good night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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It is indeed probable that
we owe
_Oneguine_
to the combined impressions of _Childe Harold_ and
_Don Juan_ upon his mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" to her
youthful
spouse she cried,
"Wake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The seaman strikes
His small lost bell again,
watching
the west
As she below him watches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
But even at that age my
language
was not understood--and great was
my astonishment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It needs not a Jacobite
prejudice
to be
affected with this song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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A sailor's
business
is the shore,
A soldier's -- balls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of
paragraphs
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
) Indeed I hardly knew poor Omar was so
far gone till his
Apologist
informed me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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afflicted
as ye are, yet hear
A fellow-suff'rer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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At fifteen I stopped
wrinkling
my brow
And desired my ashes to be mingled with your dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Shall we then live thus vile, the race of Heav'n
Thus trampl'd, thus expell'd to suffer here
Chains and these
Torments?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Pray can I not,
Though
inclination
be as sharp as will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
From this period dates
the small poem _Evening_, which seems to have been sketched by a
Japanese painter, so clear and
colourful
is its texture, so precious and
precise are its outlines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Over the mounds stood the nettles in pride,
And, where no fine flowers, there kind weeds dared to wave;
It seemed but as
yesterday
she lay by my side,
And now my dog ate of the grass on her grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
- Ihr Ende wurde
Verzweiflung
sein
Nein, kein Ende!
| 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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O'er Tagus' waves the youthful hero pass'd,
And
bleeding
hosts before him shrunk aghast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Yet I the vengeance of his shame will wreak--
That do the gods
command!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
þegn
nytte behēold, _a thane
discharged
the office_, 494; so, 668.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
ANTIGONE
Whet thou their
sternness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Aurora, famed for
constancy
in love,
Whose face with snow, whose locks with gold compare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Look, if the priests have made an altar-fire,
They can have any flame they list, as gums
Sprinkle the fluel, or salts, or curious earths,--
Tawny or purple, green, scarlet, or blue,
Or moted with an upward rain of sparks;
But first there must be air, or else no fire:
Man's being is a fire lit unto God,
And many
thoughts
colour the sacred flame;
But the air for him, the draught wherein he glows,
The breathing spirit that has turned mere life
Into the hot vehement being of man
Lambent upon the altar of the world,
Is woman and desire of her, nought else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The lightning has run masterless too long;
He must to school and learn his verb and noun
And teach his nimbleness to earn his wage,
Spelling with guided tongue man's messages
Shot through the
weltering
pit of the salt sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
O sweet
content!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Or
wherefore
should I kame my hair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy
Northern
sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
]
[Sidenote B: Softly she sits by his side,]
[Sidenote C: and tells the knight that he has
forgotten
what she taught him
the day before.
| Guess: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In vain the laughing girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some treacherous black ravine,
Clutching
his flag, the dead boy lies.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Isolt of Britain dash'd
Before Isolt of
Brittany
on the strand,
Would that have chill'd her bride-kiss?
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Tennyson |
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To the harvest-fields the while,
In long file,
Speed her sisters' lively band,
Like a flock of birds in flight
Streaming
light,
Dancing onward hand in hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Weaves in thy
fluttering
hair, Sweet,
Ivy and celandine.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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: _magnanimi Remi_ Voss:
_magnanimis_
(accus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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SARA TEASDALE
WISDOM
It was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was
scarcely
broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened for what was never spoken.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Was shown the scath and cruel
mangling
made
By Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried:
"Blood thou didst thirst for, take thy fill of blood!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I hope the
children
there
Won't be new-fashioned when I come,
And laugh at me, and stare!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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