And how can I, born in evil days[85]
And fresh from failure,[86] ask a
kindness
of Fate?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Low lies the pall,
Lowly the
mourners
all
Their passage grope;
No sable hue
Mars the serene blue
Of heaven's cope.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, when, in June,
Tall
chesnuts
keep away the sun and moon:--
I rush'd into the folly!
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Keats |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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You know that, ever resistant to all lust,
I often gave thanks to Theseus the unjust,
Whose fine
severity
supported my contempt.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Lo, how again, again, I rend and tear
My woven raiment, and from off my hair
Cast the
Sidonian
veil!
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Aeschylus |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
Their alcaliph upon a sorrel rode,
And pricked it well with both his spurs of gold;
Struck Oliver, behind, on the back-bone,
His hauberk white into his body broke,
Clean through his breast the
thrusting
spear he drove;
After he said: "You've borne a mighty blow.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The very roughness of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she
intentionally
avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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We can hardly do all we hope unless there are many more of these little
societies to be centres of
dramatic
art and of the allied arts.
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Yeats |
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--Endure and be still:
Thy
lamenting
will not wake her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Then, onward pressing fast
Through the forest rude and vast,
Hunger-wasted, fever-parch'd,
Many bitter days she marched
With
bleeding
feet that spurned the flinty pain;
One thought always throbbing through her brain:
"They shall never say, 'He was afraid,'--
They shall never cry, 'The coward stayed!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And ever and anon throughout his future life an agony constraineth him to
travel from land to land,
And to teach, by his own example, love and
reverence
to all things that God
made and loveth.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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With what device or in what hope hangest thou chill in
cloudland?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They are really
channels
for the
transmission, adequate or inadequate, of sense impressions.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It fee nor
bountith
shall us twine
Gin ye can labour lea.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Somewhat
as in the Greek
Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave
that falls over in the last.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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candida
Penelope
signum cognouit Vlixis,
legit ab Hyppolyto scripta nouerca suo;
iam pius Aeneas miserae rescripsit Elissae,
quodque legat Phyllis, si modo uiuit, adest;
tristis ad Hypsipylen ab Iasone littera uenit;
det uotam Phoebo Lesbis amata lyram.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He declares that Jesus must die, but
counsels
caution
as to the manner of the execution.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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III
"And what," I said, "though Blasphemy's loud scream
With that sweet music of
deliverance
strove!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The King of Aragon is James I, cousin of Count Raymond
Berenger
IV.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"These be the thanks
that I have
deserved
of my masters for all my long service.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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nam pater
altitonans
stellanti nixus Olympo
ipse suos quondam tumulos ac templa petiuit
et Capitolinis iniecit sedibus ignis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O, this world's
transience!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
conceal!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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| Source: |
Villon |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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As thy day grows warm and high,
Life's
meridian
flaming nigh,
Dost thou spurn the humble vale?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
THREE RECEIPTS FOR
DOMESTIC
COOKERY.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But harlot, or vagabond, would be a very
inappropriate
term to apply to the noble Knights of the Round Table.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Not far now shall it be,
The
sacrifice
God asks of me and thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Not a whit could I with Hrunting do
in work of war, though the weapon is good;
yet a sword the Sovran of Men
vouchsafed
me
to spy on the wall there, in splendor hanging,
old, gigantic, -- how oft He guides
the friendless wight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
IL CUORE
Ronsard me
celebroit!
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He had on a coat thrown over his
shoulders
above
his waistcoat and coat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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To set a shoe upon his horse, and then
Should join his master on the road agen;
But that, as we shall find, was not the case,
And Reynold's dire
misfortune
thence we trace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Eft þæt geīode ufaran dōgrum
hilde-hlæmmum, syððan
Hygelāc
læg
and Heardrēde hilde-mēceas
under bord-hrēoðan tō bonan wurdon,
2205 þā hyne gesōhtan on sige-þēode
hearde hilde-frecan, Heaðo-Scilfingas,
nīða genǣgdan nefan Hererīces.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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O my
soldiers
twain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The word refers to various sorts of pipes, some of which were made of cane and
featured
a single 'reed' cut into the side of the cane itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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There stands the
Inspector
at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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His gilded shrine lies open to the air;
And cunning sculptor's hands have carven there
The calm white brow, as calm as earliest morn,
The eyes that flashed with passionate love and scorn,
The lips that sang of Heaven and of Hell,
The almond-face which Giotto drew so well,
The weary face of Dante;--to this day,
Here in his place of resting, far away
From Arno's yellow waters, rushing down
Through the wide bridges of that fairy town,
Where the tall tower of Giotto seems to rise
A marble lily under
sapphire
skies!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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the only sound,
The dripping of the oar
suspended!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Still thy old work of
accusation?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And captains that we thought were dead,
And
dreamers
that we thought were dumb,
And voices that we thought were fled,
Arise, and call us, and we come;
And "Search in thine own soul," they cry;
"For there, too, lurks thine enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ahi anime ingannate e fatture empie,
che da si fatto ben torcete i cuori,
drizzando
in vanita le vostre tempie!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
to his lord
chamberlain
to drink.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Red follows grey across the air, the waves of
moonlight
ebb and flow
But with the Dawn she does not go and in the night-time she is there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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BOHEMIENS EN VOYAGE
La tribu
prophetique
aux prunelles ardentes
Hier s'est mise en route, emportant ses petits
Sur son dos, ou livrant a leurs fiers appetits
Le tresor toujours pret des mamelles pendantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The mirror'd friend--my
changing
form hath read.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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--"O maiden lithe and lone, what may
Thy name and lineage be,
Who so resemblest by this ray
My
darling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
_
"But the pencil was wanting, colors were wanting, honour, reward,
favour, the
nourishers
of the arts.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
And there she sits, until the moon
Through half the clear blue sky will go,
And when the little breezes make
The waters of the pond to shake,
As all the country know,
She
shudders
and you hear her cry,
"Oh misery!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Go back,
Tell the King I have
hearkened
to his message,
And tell him I will not come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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e co{n}sepc{i}ou{n} of
resou{n}
veyn {and} fals
whiche ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Meane you his
Maiestie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Caves I long for and cold rocks,
Minnow-peopled country brooks,
Blundering gales of Equinox,
Sunless valley-nooks,
Daily so I might restore
Calcined heart and
shrivelled
skin,
A morning phoenix with proud roar
Kindled new within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For so hope I my soule best avaunce,
To preye for hem that Loves
servaunts
be,
And wryte hir wo, and live in charitee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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en sche
entendyng
to
me warde wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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org
Title:
American
Poetry, 1922
A Miscellany
Author: Edna St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Yes,
moonlight
Emperor!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The
Mountain
Ephraim calld out to the mountain Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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to dash reckless and
dangerous!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
VI
She waited, till with
quickened
breath
She spoke, as one who banisheth
Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well,
To ease some mighty wish to tell:
"'Twas I," said she,
"Who wrote thus clinchingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The references are exceedingly numerous, and
the labor of verifying them was
naturally
great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
']
Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as one
Who
staggers
forth into the air and sun
From the dark chamber of a mortal fever,
Bewildered, and incapable, and ever
Fancying strange comments in her dizzy brain _5
Of usual shapes, till the familiar train
Of objects and of persons passed like things
Strange as a dreamer's mad imaginings,
Ginevra from the nuptial altar went;
The vows to which her lips had sworn assent _10
Rung in her brain still with a jarring din,
Deafening the lost intelligence within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Five score
thousand
weep, who that sight regard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Umber was
painting
of a lion fierce, 393.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The
language
of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
No doubt the garden has
been reduced in size, by the use of that part of it fronting the lane
for
building
purposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The jew is
underneath
the lot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
A little lower the
loathsome
beast
he smote with sword; his steel drove in
bright and burnished; that blaze began
to lose and lessen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
All ye friends,
Farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
and if thy heart
Be innocent, here too shalt thou refresh
Thy spirit,
listening
to some gentle sound,
Or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Mariana, the
classical
historian of Spain, tells the story of the
ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about
between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
--
At their heads they set their shields of war,
bucklers bright; on the bench were there
over each atheling, easy to see,
the high battle-helmet, the haughty spear,
the
corselet
of rings.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Heart's helmet-crest bore favors three
From his lady's white hand caught;
While Brain wore a
plumeless
casque; not he
Or favor gave or sought.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The
Atlantic
Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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TO ONE AWAY
I HEARD a cry in the night,
A
thousand
miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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Sara Teasdale |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I only
remembered
confusedly
the occurrences of the past evening.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He with an
innocence
extreme
His inner consciousness laid bare,
And Eugene soon discovered there
The story of his young love's dream,
Where plentifully feelings flow
Which we experienced long ago.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That azure feldspar hight the microcline, Or, on its wing, the Menelaus weareth
Such subtlety of
shimmering
as beareth This marvel onward through the crystalline, A splendid calyx that about her gloweth, Smiting the sunlight on whose ray she goeth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Fie, fie,
Sephina!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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