For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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" The Romans of the age of
Cincinatus
were
probably quite as credulous as the Spanish subjects of Charles
the Fifth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Wherefore halts this tongue of mine,
So
eloquent
once, so faltering now and weak?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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They are the
glorying
of Nebuchadnezzar's
Heart of fury against our God, sent here
Like insolent shouting into his holy quiet.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With thee
conversing
I forget all time,
All seasons and thir change, all please alike.
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Milton |
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Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
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Lucretius |
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never wed another--
Zuleika!
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Byron |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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Longfellow |
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And he upon whom it was
conferred
honoured it evermore after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Here in the midmost
struggle
combining--
Flags immingled and weapons crossed--
Still in union your States troop shining:
Never a star from the lustre is lost!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ende dieses Projekt
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Etextes "Faust: Teil 1" von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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Longfellow |
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I therefore, I alone first undertook
To wing the desolate Abyss, and spie
This new created World, whereof in Hell
Fame is not silent, here in hope to find
Better abode, and my afflicted Powers
To settle here on Earth, or in mid Aire; 940
Though for possession put to try once more
What thou and thy gay Legions dare against;
Whose easier business were to serve thir Lord
High up in Heav'n, with songs to hymne his Throne,
And practis'd
distances
to cringe, not fight.
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Milton |
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_] I'd sooner a
stranger
not to come to
the house the night before my wedding.
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Yeats |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_John Galsworthy_
TO RUSSIA NEW AND FREE
Land of the Martyrs--of the
martyred
dead
And martyred living--now of noble fame!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But he was strong to do and dare:
If a host had
withstood
him there,
He had braved a host with little care
In his lusty youth and his pride,
Tough to grapple though weak to snare.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
Digitized by VjOOQIC
14 THE POEMS
Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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She was dressed always in clinging dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung
straight
down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Almost without the suburbs, and before
The furthest barrier, stops the martial fair;
To furnish Flordelice what time might need
For the
conveyance
of Rogero's steed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The brilliancy of its picture of
contemporary
society could
not be heightened by a single stroke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The trayteresse fals and ful of gyle, 620
That al behoteth and no-thing halt,
She goth upryght and yet she halt,
That baggeth foule and loketh faire,
The dispitouse debonaire,
That scorneth many a
creature!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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No
ordinance
is seen,
So gradual the grace,
A pensive custom it becomes,
Enlarging loneliness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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This
Narcisus
had suffred paynes 1505
For renning alday in the playnes,
And was for thurst in greet distresse
Of hete, and of his werinesse
That hadde his breeth almost binomen.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to
discover
we must travel too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ah, I am
learning
now; it's truth they talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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e
emperour
began to chide,
& fele o?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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tante chi stipa
nove
travaglie
e pene quant' io viddi?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My heart erst alway sweet is bitter grown; As crimson ruleth in the good green's stead, So grief hath taken all mine old joy's share And driven forth my solace and all ease Where
pleasure
bows to all-usurping pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_Davoc_,
diminutive
of Davie, as Davie is of David.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
40
Thou arte all Norman,
nothynge
of mie blodde.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They were called
Troubadours
from the
word _trobar_, "to invent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
_To his
honoured
kinsman, Sir William Soame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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" He replied:
"Now who art thou, that smiting others' cheeks
Through
Antenora
roamest, with such force
As were past suff'rance, wert thou living still?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Unfortunately
he did not
allow me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
Marsilie
gives the glove into his hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far swallows flying,
Delicate
were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the
beginning
of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Rumour flies suddenly,
spreading
over the little town, that they
ride in haste to the courts of the Tyrrhene king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Si quicquam mutis gratum acceptumve sepulcris
Accidere a nostro, Calve, dolore potest,
Quo desiderio veteres renovamus amores
Atque olim missas flemus amicitias,
Certe non tanto mors
inmatura
dolorist 5
Quintiliae, quantum gaudet amore tuo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
_
FAR FROM HIS BELOVED, LIFE IS
MISERABLE
BY NIGHT AS BY DAY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Pero ti prego, dolce padre caro,
che mi
dimostri
amore, a cui reduci
ogne buono operare e 'l suo contraro>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
They fled before the Moors,
and once, when a lion broke out of his den, they ran and crouched
in an
unseemly
hiding-place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
the
illustrious
Swede hath done
The thing which ought to be .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Yes, it is in this atmosphere that it would be good to live,--yonder,
where slower hours contain more thoughts, where the clocks strike the
hours of
happiness
with a more profound and significant solemnity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
LXXV
And yet again advised the martial maid,
(Counsel she had a
thousand
times bestowed)
Then left, Nor Bradamant through greenwood shade
More than two miles in narrow path had rode,
Before, by two fierce giants overlaid,
She saw a knight, who like Rogero showed,
So closely pressed, and labouring sore for breath,
That he appeared well nigh reduced to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Musa gloriam Coronat,
gloriaque
musam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
This Troilus sat on his baye stede,
Al armed, save his heed, ful richely, 625
And wounded was his hors, and gan to blede,
On whiche he rood a pas, ful softely;
But swych a
knightly
sighte, trewely,
As was on him, was nought, with-outen faile,
To loke on Mars, that god is of batayle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
And she hath watch'd
Many a Nightingale perch giddily
On blosmy twig still
swinging
from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song,
Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
It is unlighted;
everything
is in darkness.
| 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 |
|
CHORUS
Go to now, trust the dead, a
matricide!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Dear Nature is the kindest mother still;
Though always changing, in her aspect mild:
From her bare bosom let me take my fill,
Her never-weaned, though not her
favoured
child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
I
bequeath
it to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Other previous contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell
McCarthy
and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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REMBRANDT, sad hospital that a murmuring fills,
Where one tall crucifix hangs on the walls,
Where every tear-drowned prayer some woe distils,
And one cold, wintry ray
obliquely
falls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting
despondently
at area gates.
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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The door--as if it must, yet
scarcely
dare--
Had opened widely to the night's fresh air.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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