Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
Twenty
thousand
beside him Charles leads,
Who with one voice have sworn him fealty;
In straits of death they never will him leave.
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Chanson de Roland |
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MARMADUKE The old blind Man,
When you had told him the mischance, was troubled
Even to the shedding of some natural tears
Into the torrent over which he hung,
Listening
in vain.
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William Wordsworth |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal
ceilings
afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
X
THEN
Hrothgar
went with his hero-train,
defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;
fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek,
couch of his queen.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ulysses,
ruthless
Chief!
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In this crisis of affairs, James
Colonna had been summoned to Rome to support the
interests
of his
family, and, by his courage and influence, to procure them the succour
which they so much required.
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Petrarch |
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[From Of
Reformation
in England, 1641.
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Milton |
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O, this world's
transience!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MIRTH
True mirth resides not in the smiling skin;
The
sweetest
solace is to act no sin.
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Robert Herrick |
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The more harm is,
Unhappily at Thebes al to rathe,
Polymites
and many a man to scathe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Po
expounded
his theory of poetry in a
letter to Yuan Ch?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He wound his way 'mid corpses, where the wave,
Winding from side to side, a passage gave:
L
And in the middle of the mead surveyed
Doralice (such the gentle lady's name),
Who, at the root of an old ash tree laid,
Bemoaned
her: fast her lamentations came.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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& nine dark sleepless nights
But on the tenth bright trembling morn the Circle of Destiny Completet
Round rolld the Sea Englobing in a watry Globe self balancd*
{a light line appears through this line LFS} A Frowning Continent appeard Where Enion in the Desart
Terrified in her own
Creation
viewing her woven shadow
Sat in a sweet dread intoxication of false woven bliss self woven sorrow Repentance & Contrition*
{sequence of revisions, appearent in order presented here LFS} There is from Great Eternity a mild & pleasant rest
Namd Beulah a Soft Moony Universe feminine lovely
Pure mild & Gentle given in Mercy to those who sleep
Eternally.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Swich arguments ne been not worth a bene;
Wol ye the
childish
Ialous contrefete?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This yerd was large, and rayled alle the aleyes, 820
And shadwed wel with blosmy bowes grene,
And benched newe, and sonded alle the weyes,
In which she walketh arm in arm bi-twene;
Til at the laste
Antigone
the shene
Gan on a Troian song to singe clere, 825
That it an heven was hir voys to here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then Gilbert, laden with fagots for his fire,
Forth issued from the wood, and stood aghast
To see the ponderous body of the friar
Standing
where he had left his donkey last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The most
important
passage comes after line 92: "Virtue had,
and mov'd her sphere".
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Robert Herrick |
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_ Nevertheless, it is the unavoidable destiny of
Jonahs to be cast
overboard
sooner or later.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Chimene
To let you live then is the best for me;
I would that the
blackest
voice of envy
Might praise me to the skies and pity too,
Knowing I love and must denounce you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Li Bu Collection, by Li Bu
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice, but, link by link,
Went counting all my chains as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy
possible
hand,--why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When the poor gleaner passed, with kindly look,
Quoth he, "Of purpose let some
handfuls
fall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
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.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Woe unto us, not her; for she sleeps well:
The fickle reek of popular breath, the tongue
Of hollow counsel, the false oracle,
Which from the birth of monarchy hath rung
Its knell in princely ears, till the o'erstrung
Nations have armed in madness, the strange fate
Which tumbles
mightiest
sovereigns, and hath flung
Against their blind omnipotence a weight
Within the opposing scale, which crushes soon or late,--
CLXXII.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The nightingale there all night long,
Spring's paramour, pours forth her song
The fountain brawls,
sweetbriers
bloom,
And lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This does make some
obstruction
in the blood, this cross-gartering; but what of that?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Call
therefore
this paper by what name you will, and, if it bee not
worthy of him, nor of you, nor of mee, smother it, and bee that the
sacrifice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Who robbed the woods,
The
trusting
woods?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Nay, _he_ might have been there; but I muflled me so,
He could
scarcely
have seen my figure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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) Where are the lips mine lay upon,
1
1
Audiart, Audiart,
Audiart, Audiart
Signum
Nativitatis*
II
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My
creditors have
distrained
on my goods, and here are others again, who
demand security for their interest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
Two minutes later Dick had thrown himself down on the floor and was deep
in the portfolio, chuckling lovingly as he turned the
drawings
over and
thought of the price at which they had been bought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I should not like to try my
strength
with you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Alas for my
garland!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
This
second element is that which the French
sculptor
in a different medium
has carried to perfection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For whan the sonne, cleer in sighte,
Cast in that welle his bemes brighte,
And that the heet
descended
is, 1575
Than taketh the cristal stoon, y-wis,
Agayn the sonne an hundred hewes,
Blewe, yelowe, and rede, that fresh and newe is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possess'd with
murderous
hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Best Image of my self and dearer half,
The trouble of thy
thoughts
this night in sleep
Affects me equally; nor can I like
This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear;
Yet evil whence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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THE DEAD
How shall the living be
comforted
for the dead
When they are gone, and nothing's left behind
But a vague music of the words they said
And a fast-fading image in the mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Your
shoulders
are level--
they have melted rare silver
for their breadth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What now,
If with such things as these
troubled
thou wert?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
One spot on the margin of Lake Regillus was
regarded during many ages with
superstitious
awe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Att the grete
mynsterr
wyndowe sat 305
The kynge ynne myckle state,
To see CHARLES BAWDIN goe alonge
To hys most welcom fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_The Fallen Elm_
Old elm, that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem autumn ever made
And into mellow whispering calms would drop
When showers fell on thy many coloured shade
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made--
While
darkness
came as it would strangle light
With the black tempest of a winter night
That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root--
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without--while all within was mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
'
"'Source of my life,' I cried, 'from earth I fly
To seek
Tiresias
in the nether sky,
To learn my doom; for, toss'd from woe to woe,
In every land Ulysses finds a foe:
Nor have these eyes beheld my native shores,
Since in the dust proud Troy submits her towers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Tu
mettrais
l'univers entier dans ta ruelle,
Femme impure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
They moulder, flesh and bone, _4690
Who might have made this life's
envenomed
dream
A sweeter draught than ye will ever taste, I deem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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ei gon falle,
Beforne & behynde,
Page 59
393
And bede god
Almyghty
king
// ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| 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 |
|
But it's not her air, her form, her face,
Tho'
matching
beauty's fabled queen;
'Tis the mind that shines in ev'ry grace,
An' chiefly in her roguish een.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
E-meteg,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Enter: its grandeur
overwhelms
thee not;
And why?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I love to have it smirk and shine;
_'Tis sin I know, 'tis sin to
throttle
wine_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"[13]
Again, he says of the 'Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening':
"It was during a solitary walk on the banks of the Cam that I was
first struck with this appearance, and applied it to my own feelings
in the manner here expressed, changing the scene to the Thames, near
Windsor"; [14]
and of 'Guilt and Sorrow', he said,
"To obviate some distraction in the minds of those who are well
acquainted with
Salisbury
Plain, it may be proper to say, that of the
features described as belonging to it, one or two are taken from other
desolate parts of England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Yesterday
I dined with Lady
Harriet, sister to my noble patron,[172] _Quem Deus conservet_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
WAGNER:
Wie konnt Ihr Euch darum
betruben!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
) Scorn not the young pretender; noble virtues
May lie perchance in him, virtues well worthy
Of Moscow's throne, even of thy
priceless
hand--
MARINA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
You tapped the window when the
preacher
preached his sermon,
And ran along the road beside the boy going to school.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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hym to gone
crepynge
vpo{n} hys handes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
]
[Footnote Kk: The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so
exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water
carriage, were obliged to
transport
their goods by land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
the spirit flown
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
His poems form the
synthesis
of
Donne and Butler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Among Milton's poems are these lines:--
Dicite sacrorum
praesides
nemorum Deae, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Many of those
adventurers
were
living when this lie was printed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Your wordes ful of plesaunce and
humblesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the
innocent
Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast
Lady.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Is there one Frank, that you to hang
committeth?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Naught else was talked of but her beauteous face,
And chastity that adds the highest grace;
From ev'ry quarter numbers flocked to see
This belle,
regarded
as from errors free.
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La Fontaine |
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Enter_
ELIZABETH
_and_ SIR WILLIAM CECIL.
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Tennyson |
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`Sin that thou sleest so fele in sondry wyse
Ayens hir wil, unpreyed, day and night,
Do me, at my requeste, this servyse,
Delivere now the world, so dostow right, 515
Of me, that am the
wofulleste
wight
That ever was; for tyme is that I sterve,
Sin in this world of right nought may I serve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile upstairs in the bedroom
And thought I heard him
downstairs
in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" This must have been written about 1872, and after reading it
one would fancy that Poe and Baudelaire were
rhapsodic
wrigglers on the
poetic tripod, whereas their poetry is often reserved, even glacial.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ma s'a
conoscer
la prima radice
del nostro amor tu hai cotanto affetto,
diro come colui che piange e dice.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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has never seen: he wishes to have a longer perusal
of them than the
regulations
of the library allow.
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Robert Burns |
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Thus Rilke's monograph on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's
testament
on Life and Art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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While my eyes were
watching
the clouds that travel to the sea.
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Li Po |
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