With what enchantment and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or
heedless!
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Sappho |
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Not with Grecians will
I make them think they have to do, nor a
Pelasgic
force kept off till
the tenth year by Hector.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Could they be reconciled, the two elements in man's
modern consciousness of
existence
would form a monism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And where they went on trade intent
They did what freemen can,
Their
dauntless
ways did all men praise,
The merchant was a man.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Then they loosed him; and, with one swift leap,
Blackmouth
swooped right down into the deep;--
Jumped out into space beyond the edge,
While the Apaches cowered along the ledge.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Old Flag, in thunder tones,
Poured in her port broadside,
Rattling
his iron hide,
And cracking his timber bones!
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Of his
own accord he attached himself as a companion to us;
no one knows who he is, no one knows whence he comes--
and yet he gives himself grand airs; perhaps he has a
close
acquaintance
with the pillory.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'Twas a poor statue underneath a mass
Of
leafless
branches, with a blackened back
And a green foot--an isolated Faun
In old deserted park, who, bending forward,
Half-merged himself in the entangled boughs,
Half in his marble settings.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'Twill turn out
dangerous
maybe, but still,--a game.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Defeat his wiles; resist his tempting charms
E'en from
suspicion
suffer not alarms.
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La Fontaine |
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muse
How wond'rous in my sight it seem'd to mark
A thing, albeit steadfast in itself,
Yet in its imag'd
semblance
mutable.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Big bird give
daughter
pretty and queen.
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Aristophanes |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then said another--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
from the common Earth was ta'en,
That He who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I offer here an alternative translation of the tercet to fulfil Arnaut's rhyming scheme
according
to my choice of end-rhymes.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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_
She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve
I left her
gorgeous
halls--nor mourn'd to leave.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The boy _85
Lifted a sudden look upon his mother,
And in the gleam of forced and hollow joy
Which
lightened
o'er her face, laughed with the glee
Of light and unsuspecting infancy,
And whispered in her ear, 'Bring home with you _90
That sweet strange lady-friend.
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Shelley |
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XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In so
profound
abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--What mother could confide
Her
offspring
to the wild and watery waste?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The
shivering
Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What cave shall hearken to my melodies,
Tuned to tell of Caesar's praise
And throne him high the
heavenly
ranks among?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have
sometimes
wondered
how those which merely fell on the surface of the
earth got planted; but, by the end of December, I find the chestnut of
the same year partially mixed with the mould, as it were, under the
decaying and mouldy leaves, where there is all the moisture and manure
they want, for the nuts fall fast.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Handmaid is
outspoken
about him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box,
enclosed
the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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They can take down all the huff and swelling of
their looks, and like
dexterous
auditors place the counter where he shall
value nothing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For, Crete now left afar, and other land
Appearing none, but sky alone and sea,
Right o'er the hollow bark Saturnian Jove
A cloud
caerulean
hung, dark'ning the Deep.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Feel I not always her
distress?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A canoe with flashing paddle,
A girl with soft
searching
eyes,
A call: "John!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He
continued
to hold the
office under Vitellius (ii.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With personal act or speech,--nor ever cull
Some prescience of thee with the
blossoms
white
Thou sawest growing!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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An thou," said merry
Jonathan
Rudd,
"Wilt wed me, winter shall depart,
And love like spring for us shall bud.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XI
But sad is the reflection made,
In vain was youth by us received,
That we her constantly betrayed
And she at last hath us deceived;
That our desires which noblest seemed,
The purest of the dreams we dreamed,
Have one by one all withered grown
Like rotten leaves by Autumn strown--
'Tis fearful to anticipate
Nought but of dinners a long row,
To look on life as on a show,
Eternally to imitate
The seemly crowd,
partaking
nought
Its passions and its modes of thought.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Where do you
learn of the laws
governing
such contests?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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exquisite
dancers in gray twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Please read the "legal small print," and other
information
about the
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The lee-lang night we watch'd the fauld,
Me and my faithfu' doggie;
We heard nought but the roaring linn,
Amang the braes sae scroggie;
But the houlet cry'd frae the castle wa',
The blitter frae the boggie,
The tod reply'd upon the hill,
I
trembled
for my Hoggie.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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For in such a way do I reverse
All this, that fine plains look like hills,
I take for flowers the frost and ice,
In the cold I'm warm as anything,
And thunderclaps are songs and whistles,
And full of leaf the
leafless
bristles.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"From thence we climb'd a point, whose airy brow
Commands the
prospect
of the plains below;
No tracks of beasts, or signs of men, we found,
But smoky volumes rolling from the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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in my
connubial
hour decree
This man my spouse, or such a spouse as he!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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When the remonstrance was made to James in 1621, the object of the
petitioners was gained, as we have seen, by throwing all the blame upon
the
patentees
and projectors.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tho' blotch'd an' foul wi' mony a stain,
An' far unworthy of thy train,
With
trembling
voice I tune my strain
To join with those,
Who boldly daur thy cause maintain
In spite o' foes:
In spite o' crowds, in spite o' mobs,
In spite of undermining jobs,
In spite o' dark banditti stabs
At worth an' merit,
By scoundrels, even wi' holy robes,
But hellish spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This said, he sat; and expectation held
His look suspence, awaiting who appeer'd
To second, or oppose, or undertake
The perilous attempt: but all sat mute, 420
Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each
In others count'nance red his own dismay
Astonisht: none among the choice and prime
Of those Heav'n-warring
Champions
could be found
So hardie as to proffer or accept
Alone the dreadful voyage; till at last
Satan, whom now transcendent glory rais'd
Above his fellows, with Monarchal pride
Conscious of highest worth, unmov'd thus spake.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Horrible
mysteries
in the gulph stare through,
Roars of a million tongues, and none knows what they mean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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let me
retrieve
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April
perfumes
in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'75'
With this line Arbuthnot is
supposed
to take up the conversation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the identification of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter
disguised
as a swan.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
CXLII
The man who knows, for him there's no prison,
In such a fight with keen defence lays on;
Wherefore
the Franks are fiercer than lions.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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I will, or perish in the generous cause:
Hear this, and
tremble!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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And brief the respite;
soon as they seized him, his sword-doom was spoken,
and the
burnished
blade a baleful murder
proclaimed and closed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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might I kiss the
mountain
rains
That sparkle on her cheek.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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If it were not for such
families
as this, I think I
should move out of Concord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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infami probro palmam
conuendit
adulter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But, for the rest, be all these things a care
Unto the mighty Loxias, the lord
Of this our shrine: healer and prophet he,
Discerner he of portents, and the cleanser
Of other homes--behold, his own to
cleanse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then Orthodoxy yet may prance,
An'
Learning
in a woody dance,
An' that fell cur ca'd Common Sense,
That bites sae sair,
Be banished o'er the sea to France:
Let him bark there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
She did, my lord, when
Valentine
was here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The work is a hasty
and unrevised production of its author's earlier days of literary labor;
and, beyond the scenes already known,
scarcely
calculated to enhance
his reputation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Not
otherwise
he sacks
Those many-chambered palaces of wax.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
_("Le cheval
galopait
toujours.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
XVII
Nay; I'll sing "The Bridge of Lodi"--
That long-loved,
romantic
thing,
Though none show by smile or nod he
Guesses why and what I sing!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We being single ecstasy, now as strange
As if a shadow stained where no one stood
The ground in the noon-glare, seemeth to me
The long blind time wherein our lives and the world
Lay
stretcht
out dark upon the light of heaven,
Like shadow of some bulk that took the glory;
While yet there stood not over it, to shade
The splendour from it, our heaven-fronting love,
This great new soul that our two souls have kindled.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
XXV
It suddenly came into Leo's mind
The knight of whom she
parlayed
was that same,
Whom throughout all the land he sought to find,
And seeking whom, he now in person came.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Ideas of a very practical nature have now taken
possession
of the
people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Great
businesse
must be wrought ere Noone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gently
illuminate
a sober scene; 1827.
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| Question: |
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They went, and found a hospitable race:
Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest,
They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast
The trees around them all their food produce:
Lotus the name: divine,
nectareous
juice!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Under this head I have
specially
to thank Mrs.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--Un chant
mysterieux
tombe des astres d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
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Troubador Verse |
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Purely as a drama the play may
be disappointing, but regarded as a poem it ranks with the noblest
dramatic literature of the
eighteenth
century.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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8 _Catullus ploxenum circa Padum inuenit
7
_diffissus_
Statius: _def(f)essus in (a)estum_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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But all his praises could not now appease
The proroked author, whom it did
displease
To hear his verses, by so just a curse,
That were ill made, condemned to be read worse :
And how (impossible !
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Marvell - Poems |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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He was like Flaubert, who
saw
everywhere
the hidden skeleton.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What combat, siege, ambush could not farther
Nor Aragon indeed, nor Grenada,
Neither your foes, nor yet the envious,
The Count has perpetrated on us,
Hating your choice, proud of the advantage
Granted him by my
weakness
at my age.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At the very least it has
enriched
the thought of humanity with
some imperishable lines.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Anyone coming upon the lines:
"More than the Protestant milk all newly lapt,
Impearling a tame wild-cat's
whiskered
jaws,"
would have assigned them without hesitation to the writer of "A Certain
People" and other sonnets in the "Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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