At length burst in the argent revelry,
With plume, tiara, and all rich array,
Numerous
as shadows haunting fairily
The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay 40
Of old romance.
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Keats |
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Youth is lovely, age is lonely;
You bring back the days departed,
You bring back my youth of passion,
And the beautiful
Wenonah!
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How
curious!
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Whitman |
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Forget not to grunt and to say wee-wee like the little pigs that
are
sacrificed
in the Mysteries.
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Aristophanes |
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Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the
revelation
of
all philosophy; and he sometimes has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Tu mi fai rimembrar dove e qual era
Proserpina
nel tempo che perdette
la madre lei, ed ella primavera>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
following
printed errata have been incorporated into the text:
P.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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There came a day at summer's full
Entirely for me;
I thought that such were for the saints,
Where
revelations
be.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This account of his end has
been adopted by Giles and most other
European
writers, but already in
the twelfth century Hung Mai pointed out that the story is inconsistent
with Li Yang-ping's authentic evidence.
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Li Po |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But, since till then this trial you delay,
Trust it one moment to my hands to-day:
Fain would I prove, before your judging eyes,
What once I was, whom
wretched
you despise:
If yet this arm its ancient force retain;
Or if my woes (a long-continued train)
And wants and insults, make me less than man.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1907
ON TAKING _THE
PLAYBOY_
TO LONDON.
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Yeats |
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What needeth
Holofernes
more?
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Out in the evening roam,
Out from thy room thou know'st in every part,
And far in the dim
distance
leave thy home,
Whosoever thou art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The treasure's too dear to dare to
compromise
it.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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1015
`But O, thou Iove, O auctor of nature,
Is this an honour to thy deitee,
That folk
ungiltif
suffren here iniure,
And who that giltif is, al quit goth he?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ouseley has written a note to
something
of the same
effect on the fly-leaf of the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nay, then, I must use some
fraternal
force,
Which you will pardon.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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outen any
grucchyng
word,
Mete ?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--Allan lagged behind in
returning to Loudon Castle, and at dinner
produced
this identical
song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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My Sirion, my youngest, best
beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms 410
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall,
aetherial
rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 420
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_There is a growing
desire to
overrate
them.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure
never is at home:
At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,
Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;
Then let winged Fancy wander
Through the thought still spread beyond her:
Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I could have
touched!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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(To
MARMADUKE
aside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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William Wordsworth |
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But, son, ascribe not you the journey made
To wit or worth; nor through your winged steed,
Nor through your
virtuous
bugle had ye thriven,
But that such helping grace from God was given.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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)
What news hast thou for me, Semyon
Nikitich?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ortelius,
_Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum_, 89.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But was our friend Eugene content,
Free, in the blossom of his spring,
Amidst
successes
flattering
And pleasure's daily blandishment,
Or vainly 'mid luxurious fare
Was he in health and void of care?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Wherefore haste ye to conjoin in the longed-for
delights
of your love.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Wordsworth, Miss Fenwick, Edward and
Dora Quillinan, and William
Wordsworth
(the poet's son).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Saveliitch exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to
himself!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Across the lake the skaters
Flew to and fro,
With sharp turns weaving
A frail
invisible
net.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Stewart; "--
But a Short Time to Live," by the late
Sergeant
Leslie Coulson.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more
priceless
far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over clustering ivy-berries pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
For years I cannot hum a bit,
Or sing the
smallest
song;
And this the dreadful reason is,--
My legs are grown too long!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_145
'Yet, human Spirit, bravely hold thy course,
Let virtue teach thee firmly to pursue
The gradual paths of an aspiring change:
For birth and life and death, and that strange state
Before the naked soul has found its home, _150
All tend to perfect happiness, and urge
The restless wheels of being on their way,
Whose flashing spokes,
instinct
with infinite life,
Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal:
For birth but wakes the spirit to the sense _155
Of outward shows, whose unexperienced shape
New modes of passion to its frame may lend;
Life is its state of action, and the store
Of all events is aggregated there
That variegate the eternal universe; _160
Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom,
That leads to azure isles and beaming skies
And happy regions of eternal hope.
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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XXXVIII
Then gan the Pilgrim thus, I chaunst this day,
This fatall day, that shall I ever rew, 330
To see two knights in travell on my way
(A sory sight) arraung'd in battell new,
Both breathing vengeaunce, both of
wrathfull
hew:
My fearefull flesh did tremble at their strife,
To see their blades so greedily imbrew, 335
That drunke with bloud, yet thristed after life:
What more?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Quoth that
lovesome
(one)--
"Though I had nought of yours,
Yet should ye have of mine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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-- 7 Jamne igitur vides, quid haec omnia
quae diximus,
consequatur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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According
to Erdman, this change was made while 'sorrow & care' was in its earlier form, 'eternal fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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A
brighter
dwelling-place is here for thee--
* It was entire in 1687--the most elevated spot in Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
AMOR MUNDI
(_The
Shilling
Magazine_, 1865.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land, --
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The poor, the outcasts, the homeless ones
received for him a new significance, the significance of the isolated
figure placed in the mighty
everchanging
current of a life in which this
figure stands strong and solitary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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" Leaving the dim
twilight
of mediaeval Germany,
the poet brought his imagination to bear upon the Red Indian and his
store of legend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And all the while, most
heavenly
melody 150
About the bed sweet musicke did divide,
Him to beguile of griefe and agony:
And all the while Duessa wept full bitterly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
surely once some urn of Attic clay
Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again
Back to this common world so dull and vain,
For thou wert weary of the sunless day,
The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,
The
loveless
lips with which men kiss in Hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
They
shall arise in America, and be
responded
to from the remainder of the
earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Beaute forte a genoux devant la beaute frele,
Superbe, elle humait voluptueusement
Le vin de son triomphe, et s'allongeait vers elle
Comme pour
recueillir
un doux remerciment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Je vais vous emporter a travers l'epaisseur,
Compagnons de ma triste joie,
A travers l'epaisseur de la terre et du roc,
A travers les amas confus de votre cendre,
Dans un palais aussi grand que moi, d'un seul bloc,
Et qui n'est pas de pierre tendre;
Car il fait avec l'universel Peche,
Et
contient
mon orgueil, ma douleur et ma gloire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The originals of the
Dedication
and
Letters were conveyed to Goethe by John Murray the third, in 1830 (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor,
brilliant
and warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
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: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
The Evil God walked away cursing the
stupidity
of man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
--Il n'est donc point de mere a ces petits enfants,
De mere au frais sourire, aux regards
triomphants?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The fervid poet would recite,
Carried away by ecstasy,
Fragments of northern poetry,
Whilst Eugene
condescending
quite,
Though scarcely following what was said,
Attentive listened to the lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
, is a poetic word
supposed
by Grimm
to have been applied, like Gr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with
wrinkled
female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
With curses, shrieks, and cries,
Horses and wagons and men
Tumbled back through the
shuddering
glen,
And above us the fading skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Went up a year this
evening!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
MARVOIL 1
A POOR clerk I, "Arnaut the less" they call me,
And because I have small mind to Day long, long day cooped on a stool
A-jumbling o' figures for Maitre Jacques Polin, I ha' taken to
rambling
the South here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
[[Pope eras't]]
Anon to
Eufemians
in,--
er ?
| 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 |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The
significance
_is_ the
poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of passionate surmise
When beauty
throbbed
like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Thou wilt have
another bridegroom--and
handsome
and affable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
I have to longe in this maner 3920
Left hem unclosid wilfully;
Wherfore
I am right inwardly
Sorowful and repente me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
She will;
And weep my babe's low
station!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
--Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages
wherein they live and
illustrate
the times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
"
That
doubtful
Old Man of th' Abruzzi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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But perhaps the most remarkable
characteristic
of Pope is his manly
independence.
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Alexander Pope |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Filthy with
fulsomest
lust ever be doomed to the death,
Make I no manner of doubt but first thy tongue to the worthy
Ever a foe, cut out, ravening Vulture shall feed;
Gulp shall the Crow's black gorge those eye-balls dug from their sockets,
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Guts of thee go to the dogs, all that remains to the wolves.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And so many
children
poor?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Seals in all periods frequently
represent
Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And fi*om my Charles to a base gaol me drew ;
My
reverend
age exposed to scorn and shame,
To pngs, bawds, whores, was made the public
game.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Valerius
struck at Titus,
And lopped off half his crest;
But Titus stabbed Valerius
A span deep in the breast.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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May your fault die,
And have no name
In books of fame;
Or let it lie
Forgotten
now, as I.
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Robert Herrick |
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You can get up to date
donation
information online at:
http://www.
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Aristophanes |
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But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in
favor of these poems, he
triumphantly
drags forward a passage, in his
abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
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Poe - 5 |
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